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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2015
Applicant:
Biomérieux, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Inventors:
James VanGordon, Maryland Heights, MO (US);
Bradford Clay, Wildwood, MO (US);
Assignee:
bioMérieux, Inc., Durham, NC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/40 (2006.01); H01J 49/16 (2006.01); H01J 49/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/40 (2013.01); H01J 49/0418 (2013.01); H01J 49/164 (2013.01); H01J 49/403 (2013.01);
Abstract
MALDI-TOF MS systems have solid state lasers and successive and varied delay times between ionization and acceleration (e.g. extraction) to change focus masses during a single sample signal acquisition without requiring tuning of the MS by a user. The (successive) different delay times can change by 1 ns to about 500 ns, and can be in a range that is between 1-2500 nanoseconds.