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Adron Systems LLC is a technology company specializing in the development and distribution of advanced data acquisition, data extraction, and data file conversion solutions for mass spectrometry instrumentation.

Adron Systems is organized as a member-managed limited liability company according to State of Minnesota laws.  Our company was formed in 2002.

Our customers include government agencies, universities, analytical instrument suppliers (OEMs),  and research institutions.

Intellectual Properties Available

Is your company interested in expanding its footprint in mass spectrometry data systems?  Through agile designs and clever implementation,  Adron Systems has an attractive portfolio available for mass spectrometry:

Vx Acquisition
MS Data Acquisition
Vx Capture
MS Data Conversion
Vx Extract
MS Information Extraction
Demonstration versions of these products are available.

Our products are built upon a set of extensible,  reusable,  custom libraries.  These libraries can be utilized as a platform for new products.  Consider Thermo-Fisher’s SmartCapture product suite for Laboratory Asset Monitoring.

SmartCapture was constructed utilizing Adron Systems' libraries,  the Qt Framework,  Microsoft SQL Server,  and custom programming from Adron Systems.

Contact Adron Systems if you are interested in discussing the purchase of or licensing of these properties.

Founder and CEO

Adron Systems was founded by Richard B. Opsal, PhD (Analytical Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington). Experiences include:

  • Assistant Professor at Bemidji State University (Bemidji, MN) in the mathematics and computer science department. Responsible for teaching computer science programming courses including CS1 (Python), CS2 (C++), and Event Driven Programming (Qt).
  • Vice President and Co-Founder at ProLab Resources (Madison, WI). Responsible for the migration of the Vector/2™ and EnviroLink™ mass spectrometer data systems. Provided the framework for ProLab's Extend MS products and OEM consulting services.
  • Director of Software Development at Teknivent Corporation (St. Louis, MO). Responsible for continued development and design of the Vector/2 and EnviroLink data systems.

    (Teknivent Corporation was the original developer of the Vector/2 and EnviroLink lines of data systems. Dr. Opsal was a key player in the development of these systems, first as a Scientific Programmer, and later as Director of Software Development.)

  • Postgraduate work at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (Garching, Germany). Data system development for CARS (Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy). Research the energy transfer between excited sodium atoms and hydrogen molecules.
  • Graduate work at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN). Development of time-of-flight mass spectrometers and associated data systems. Research the use of laser ionization for mass spectrometry and gas chromatography.