MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517095868 A) filed by Smiths Detection-Watford Limited, Hempstead, U.K., on Oct. 6, for 'method of operating and ion mobility spectrometer and apparatus.'

Inventor(s) include Atkinson, Jonathan R Clark, Alastair; and Arnold, Paul.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An aspect of the disclosure provides a method of operating an ion mobility spectrometer the ion mobility spectrometer comprising an ioniser, a reaction region adjacent the ioniser, a gate and a detector for detecting the arrival of ions, the method comprising:(i) openi...