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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2014
Applicant:
Micromass Uk Limited, Wilmslow, GB;
Inventors:
Jose M. Castro-Perez, New Providence, NJ (US);
Alan Millar, Southborough, MA (US);
Robert S. Plumb, Milford, MA (US);
Assignee:
Micromass UK Limited, Wilmslow, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/00 (2006.01); G01N 33/15 (2006.01); H01J 49/26 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/0031 (2013.01); G01N 33/15 (2013.01); G06F 19/703 (2013.01); H01J 49/004 (2013.01); H01J 49/26 (2013.01); Y10T 436/24 (2015.01);
Abstract
A method of searching for potentially unknown metabolites of pharmaceutical compounds is disclosed. The accurate mass of a pharmaceutical compound will generally be known and can be rendered in the form of an integer nominal mass or mass to charge ratio component and a decimal mass or mass to charge ratio component. Possible metabolites are searched for on the basis of having a decimal mass or mass to charge ratio component which is substantially very similar to the decimal mass or mass to charge ratio of the parent pharmaceutical compound.