US Patent Issued to Micromass UK on June 10 for "Outer source assembly and associated components" (British, Singaporean, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,718, issued on June 10, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Outer source assembly and associated components" was invented by Alastair Booth (Glossop, Great Britain), Alvin Chua (Singapore), Carl Chen (Victoria, Australia), Marcus Dawber (Wilmslow, Great Britain), Pham Hoang Vu Ngo (Singapore), William Ngo (Singapore), Dennis Ong (Singapore), Richard Tyldesley-Worster (Wilmslow, Great Britain), Arvind Rangan (Singapore) and Steven Rocha (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens assembly for an outer source of a mass spectrometer, the assembly comprising: a housing; a plurality of lens elements, each lens element...