Patent ID: 11942315
Assignee: THERMO FINNIGAN LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus, comprising:
an amplifier circuit configured to cause a radio frequency (RF) signal to drive an electrode of a component of a mass spectrometer based on an amplifier RF input signal; and
a controller circuit configured to provide the amplifier RF input signal in response to a determination that an actual amplitude of the RF signal is different than an expected amplitude, the controller circuit determining one or both of current environmental characteristics or current performance characteristics of the mass spectrometer, and the amplifier RF input signal provided based on one or both of: (i) a comparison of the current environmental characteristics and past environmental characteristics stored in a memory, or (ii) a comparison of the current performance characteristics and past performance characteristics of the mass spectrometer stored in the memory.