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Virgin Instruments Corporation

8 patents currently held · Updated Nov 15, 2026
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  • 1 fee due Jun 15, 2027
    The maintenance fee for Method and apparatus for transporting sample plates between chambers of a mass spectrometer (US 9,214,323) comes due Jun 15, 2027. Unpaid by Dec 15, 2027, it lapses early.

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US 8,735,810Time-of-flight mass spectrometer with ion source and ion detector electrically connected
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US 9,214,323Method and apparatus for transporting sample plates between chambers of a mass spectrometer
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US 9,543,138Ion optical system for MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer
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US 9,691,597Electrically conductive and filtrating substrates for mass spectrometry
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US 11,105,797Ligand binding assays using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
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US 10,991,563Molecular imaging of biological samples with sub-cellular spatial resolution and high sensitivity
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US 11,232,940Method and apparatus for surgical monitoring using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
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US 11,133,171Method and apparatus for tandem mass spectrometry with MALDI-TOF ion source
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