US Patent Issued to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Jan. 13 for "Programmable and tunable cylindrical deflector analyzers" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,784, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"Programmable and tunable cylindrical deflector analyzers" was invented by Edwin Fohtung (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic analyzer includes a cylindrical body having an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder that are coaxial with one another along a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical body. An inner cylindrical electrode is positioned on an exterior face of the inner cylinder. An outer cylindrical electrode is positioned on an interior face of the outer cylinder. A first azimuthal electrode positioned on a face of a f...