US 12,424,428 B2
Apparatus for analyzing mass spectral data
Robin Park, San Diego, CA (US); and Sven Brehmer, Lilienthal (DE)
Filed by Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co. KG, Bremen (DE)
Filed on May 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/735,309.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/183,333, filed on May 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0351955 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H01J 49/00 (2006.01); G01N 27/623 (2021.01); H01J 49/06 (2006.01); H01J 49/10 (2006.01); H01J 49/40 (2006.01); H01J 49/42 (2006.01)
CPC H01J 49/0036 (2013.01) [G01N 27/623 (2021.01); H01J 49/06 (2013.01); H01J 49/10 (2013.01); H01J 49/40 (2013.01); H01J 49/4215 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for analyzing peak data generated from mass signals acquired by a mass spectrometric system, the apparatus comprising:
a streaming device that comprises a first network interface and that is configured to (a) generate peak data from the acquired mass signals or to receive peak data generated externally from the acquired mass signals, (b) group the peak data into independently processable data packets which relate to a different mass spectrometry related processing tasks, and (c) distribute the data packets in a different task-specific streams via the first network interface onto a network; and
at least one analyzing device that comprises a second network interface and that is configured to (a) retrieve the data packets of the different task-specific streams via the second network interface from the network, (b) perform the different mass spectrometry related processing tasks on the retrieved data packets of the respective different task-specific streams to produce result data, (c) package the result data in a result data packets, and (d) distribute the respective result data packets in the respective different task-specific streams via the second network interface onto the network.