ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,072, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).
"Curved ion mobility architecture" was invented by Yehia M. Ibrahim (Richland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Curved ion manipulation devices can provide relatively greater ion pathway lengths over conventional devices. Ions can be directed through one or more pairs of opposing curved surfaces of a curved ion manipulation structure. Each pair of opposing curved surfaces can be spaced apart radially relative to a common longitudinal axis of the ion manipulation structure to define a radial gap. Each pair of opposing curved surfaces can include a...