US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on June 17 for "Systems and methods for isolating a target ion in an ion trap" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,322, issued on June 17, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for isolating a target ion in an ion trap" was invented by Robert Graham Cooks (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Dalton Snyder (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to systems and methods for isolating a target ion in an ion trap. In certain aspects, the invention provides a system that includes a mass spectrometer having an ion trap, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU includes storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that when executed by the CPU cause the system...