ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,399, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"IMS analyzer" was invented by Shohei Komaru (Sakai, Japan), Tadashi Iwamatsu (Sakai, Japan), Masamitsu Moritani (Sakai, Japan), Katsuhiko Kyuhken (Sakai, Japan) and Shunsuke Matsuo (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an IMS analyzer including an analysis chamber, an electron emitter, an ion detector, a first gas injector that injects a sample gas into the analysis chamber, a second gas injector that injects a drift gas into the analysis chamber, a third gas injector that injects a primary ion generating gas into the analysis c...