US Patent Issued to Leybold on April 15 for "Holding device for at least one filament and mass spectrometer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,100, issued on April 15, was assigned to Leybold GmbH (Cologne, Germany).

"Holding device for at least one filament and mass spectrometer" was invented by Niklas Pengemann (Wuppertal, Germany), Yessica Brachthaeuser (Cologne, Germany) and Thorsten Benter (Haan, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a holding device for at least one filament, comprising: at least one filament receptacle for receiving the at least one filament. The holding device is designed for the detachable attachment, in particular clamping attachment, of the at least one filament receptacle to a container of an ionization device. The inven...