Patent ID: 7541576

Claim:
A method for analyzing analytes from a sample introduced into a Spectrometer comprising the steps of a. generating a pseudo random sequence of a modulation bins; b. organizing each modulation bin as a series of submodulation bins, thereby forming an extended pseudo random sequence of submodulation bins wherein each submodulation bin is either a gate open event, where analyte is being introduced into the spectrometer, or a gate closed event, where analyte is not being introduced into the spectrometer, the submodulation bins are of equal duration, and each modulation bin consists of either a gate open event followed by a series of gate closed events, or consists a series of gate closed events; c. releasing the analytes in a series of analyte packets into a Spectrometer with a series of gate open events according to the pseudo random sequence of modulation bins wherein each ion packet consists of ions released by a given gate open event, thereby generating an unknown original ion signal vector; d. detecting the analytes at a detector, wherein analytes of sequential packets are intermingled at the detector thereby generating a plurality of analyte signal subvectors equal to the number of submodulation bins; e. characterizing the sample using the plurality of analyte signal subvectors.