US Patent Issued to THERMO FINNIGAN, THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC (BREMEN) on Sept. 30 for "Complemented ion funnel for mass spectrometer" (Russian, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,344, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to THERMO FINNIGAN LLC (San Jose, Calif.) and THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC (BREMEN) GMBH (Bremen, Germany).

"Complemented ion funnel for mass spectrometer" was invented by Alexander A. Makarov (Bremen, Germany), Eloy R. Wouters (San Jose, Calif.), Joshua A. Silveira (San Jose, Calif.), Mikhail G. Skoblin (Dolgoprudny, Russia) and Viacheslav Kozlovskiy (Chernogolovka, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mass spectrometry method comprises: (a) introducing ions and gas into a first electrode section of an ion transport apparatus along an axis, the ion transport apparatus further comprising a second...