US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Nov. 11 for "Sample support body, ionization method, and mass spectrometry method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,689, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Sample support body, ionization method, and mass spectrometry method" was invented by Masahiro Kotani (Hamamatsu, Japan), Takayuki Ohmura (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Akira Tashiro (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample support body is used for ionizing a component of a sample. The sample support body includes: a substrate; a porous layer provided on the substrate and having a front surface on a side opposite to the substrate; and a partition portion partitioning the front surface into a first region and a second region. The porous layer...