US Patent Issued to DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT on April 22 for "Dynamically concentrating ion packets in the extraction region of a TOF mass analyzer in targeted acquisition" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,474, issued on April 22, was assigned to DH TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Dynamically concentrating ion packets in the extraction region of a TOF mass analyzer in targeted acquisition" was invented by Nicholas G. Bloomfield (Newmarket, Canada), Igor Chernushevich (Toronto) and Robert Haufler (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamically switching an ion guide and a TOF mass analyzer between concentrating or not concentrating ions in a targeted acquisition. Product ions are ejected from the ion guide into the TOF mass analyzer and the intensity of a known product ion is mea...