Inventor · Fitchburg, WI, US

Michael S. Westphall

22Patents
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15Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 8, 2001 → Nov 10, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6649907B2 Charge reduction electrospray ionization ion source Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 100 Expired
US7518108B2 Electrospray ionization ion source with tunable charge reduction Electricity 39 Active
US6906322B2 Charged particle source with droplet control for mass spectrometry Electricity 35 Expired
US6797945B2 Piezoelectric charged droplet source Electricity 29 Expired
US7078679B2 Inductive detection for mass spectrometry Electricity 24 Expired
US7408147B2 Nanoelectromechanical and microelectromechanical sensors and analyzers Electricity 21 Active
US6727497B2 Charge reduction in electrospray mass spectrometry Electricity 11 Expired
US7884324B2 Nanopillar arrays for electron emission Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US9040903B2 Precursor selection using an artificial intelligence algorithm increases proteomic sample coverage and reproducibility Physics 7 Active
US10852306B2 Gas-phase purification for accurate isobaric tag-based quantification Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US11525760B2 Gas phase sample preparation for cryo-electron microscopy Electricity 3 Active
US11092523B2 Gas phase sample preparation for cryo-electron microscopy Electricity 3 Active
US9625470B2 Identification of related peptides for mass spectrometry processing Electricity 3 Active
US10153146B2 High mass accuracy filtering for improved spectral matching of high-resolution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry data against unit-resolution reference databases Physics 3 Active
US8686375B2 Molecule mass detection via field emission of electrons from membranes Electricity 2 Active
US9698001B2 Gas-phase purification for accurate isobaric tag-based quantification Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US11728146B2 Retractable ion guide, grid holder, and technology for removal of cryogenic sample from vacuum Electricity 1 Active
US12130217B2 Gas phase sample preparation for cryo-electron microscopy Electricity 0 Active
US10273511B2 Enzymes for producing non-straight-chain fatty acids Chemistry; Metallurgy 0 Active
US10809267B2 Gas-phase purification for accurate isobaric tag-based quantification General 0 Revoked
US12373084B2 Web-based data upload and visualization platform enabling creation of code-free exploration of MS-based omics data Electricity 0 Active
US8628974B2 Protein/peptide sequencing by chemical degradation in the gas phase Physics 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.