US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 30 for "Spray ionization device, analysis device, and surface coating device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,609, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Spray ionization device, analysis device, and surface coating device" was invented by Shinichiro Fujii (Tsukuba, Japan), Kazumi Inagaki (Tsukuba, Japan) and Shinichi Miyashita (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spray ionization device comprising: a first pipe body that has a first flow path which allows a liquid to flow therethrough, and has, at one end thereof, a first outlet through which the liquid is sprayed out; a second pipe body that surrounds the first pipe body; and a third pipe body that surrounds...