US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY on March 18 for "Instrument for separating ions including an electrostatic linear ion trap to simultaneously trap multiple ions" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,060, issued on March 18, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Instrument for separating ions including an electrostatic linear ion trap to simultaneously trap multiple ions" was invented by Martin F. Jarrold (Bloomington, Ind.) and Daniel Botamanenko (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge detection mass spectrometer may include an ion source to generate ions, a mass spectrometer to separate the generated ions as a function of ion mass-to-charge ratio to produce beam of separated ions, an electrostatic linear ion trap (ELIT) including a charge detection cylinder disposed between...