ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,099, issued on April 15, was assigned to Southern University of Science and Technology (Shenzhen, China).

"Ion trap apparatus and saddle point moving method for ion trap apparatus" was invented by Zhao Wang (Shenzhen, China), Qinglin Ma (Shenzhen, China), Jiayu Guo (Shenzhen, China), Benran Wang (Shenzhen, China), Mingshen Li (Shenzhen, China) and Yu Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an ion trap apparatus and a saddle point moving method for the ion trap apparatus. The ion trap apparatus comprises: an insulating base material, the insulating base material being a concave structure; an...