US Patent Issued to DH Technologies Development on Jan. 20 for "Mass spectrometry methods and systems for high pressure charge state control and/or fragmentation" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,223, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Mass spectrometry methods and systems for high pressure charge state control and/or fragmentation" was invented by Yves Le Blanc (Newmarket, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein provide for charge state control of multiply-charged anions in a front end, high pressure ion guide. In some example aspects, a mass spectrometer system is provided comprising a first vacuum chamber (121) maintained at a pressure above about 500 mTorr. At least one ion guide (106) is disposed within the first vacuum chamber, the at...