US Patent Issued to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) on Feb. 18 for "Device, system, and method for ion fragmentation by use of an ion mobility device and messenger tagging" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,490, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Device, system, and method for ion fragmentation by use of an ion mobility device and messenger tagging" was invented by Stephan Warnke (Preverenges, Switzerland), Thomas Rizzo (Denens, Switzerland) and Ahmed Ben Faleh (Renens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for fragmenting ions by collision induced dissociation, the device intended to be used together with a planar ion mobility apparatus, the device including a first conductive grid having a plurality of first openings, the first conductive grid conf...