US Patent Issued to BIOCHROMATO, UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI on Nov. 18 for "Ionization device, mass spectrometry system, and ionization method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,100, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BIOCHROMATO INC. (Kanagawa, Japan) and UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Ionization device, mass spectrometry system, and ionization method" was invented by Kazumasa Kinoshita (Kanagawa, Japan), Takao Nishiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoaki Endo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenzo Hiraoka (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ionization device includes an ion formation section configured to ionize an analyte via a corona discharge; and a transfer section configured to transfer the ionized analyte to a mass spectrometry apparatus. The ion formation section and the transfer section...