ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,162, issued on July 15, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).
"Ion guide assembly having multiple ion guides" was invented by Jason Wildgoose (Stockport, Great Britain), Darren Hewitt (Pennington, Great Britain), Matthew Collier (Warrington, Great Britain) and Oliver Malpas (Congleton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion guide assembly (2) is disclosed comprising: two planar mounting components (4); and first and second ion guides (6,8) mounted on the two planar mounting components such that the ion guides are spaced apart from each other, wherein at least one of the planar mounting components h...