US Patent Issued to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) on Nov. 11 for "High resolution multi-reflection time-of-flight mass analyser" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,691, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"High resolution multi-reflection time-of-flight mass analyser" was invented by Hamish Stewart (Bremen, Germany), Dmitry Grinfeld (Bremen, Germany), Bernd Hagedorn (Bremen, Germany) and Robert Ostermann (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media described provide multi-reflection time-of-flight analyser (e.g. of a type in which the ion beam is allowed to spread out relatively broadly) and methods for use in a zoom mode, in which time-of-flight perturbations induced by reflections at the ...