US Patent Issued to Standard BioTools Canada on July 1 for "Inductively coupled plasma torch with reverse vortex flow and method of operation" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,650, issued on July 1, was assigned to Standard BioTools Canada Inc. (Markham, Canada).

"Inductively coupled plasma torch with reverse vortex flow and method of operation" was invented by Alexander V. Loboda (Thornhill, Canada) and Adam Carew (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We describe in this application the analysis of samples using elemental or mass spectrometry and the analysis of samples, such as biological samples by suspension mass cytometry or imaging mass cytometry and an inductively coupled plasma torch with reverse vortex flow for elemental analysis and a method of operating an ICP torch configured to interface with...