US Patent Issued to Dionex, Thermo Hypersil-Keystone on Aug. 19 for "Replaceable emitter assembly for interfacing a separation column to a mass spectrometer" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,757, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Dionex Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Thermo Hypersil-Keystone LLC (Bellefonte, Pa.).

"Replaceable emitter assembly for interfacing a separation column to a mass spectrometer" was invented by Brandon Howard Robson (Bellefonte, Pa.), Xuefei Sun (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiaodong Liu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrospray emitter assembly for interfacing a separation column to a mass spectrometer is disclosed. An emitter capillary includes an inlet end and an outlet end. A fitting is coupled to the inlet end of the emitter, configured to be removably connected to the separa...