US Patent Issued to Thermo Finnigan on Aug. 5 for "Daly detector operable in negative ion and positive ion detection modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,512, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Daly detector operable in negative ion and positive ion detection modes" was invented by Linfan Li (San Jose, Calif.), Jae C. Schwartz (Gilroy, Calif.) and Oleg Silivra (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of ion detection comprises: (a) setting electrical potentials of a dynode and a scintillator electrode of a Daly detector and of a focusing lens disposed at an ion inlet of the Daly detector so as to detect negatively charged ions received from a mass analyzer or mass filter; (b) transferring the negatively charged ions from the mass...