US Patent Issued to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) on Nov. 18 for "Ion transport between ion optical devices at different gas pressures" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,098, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Ion transport between ion optical devices at different gas pressures" was invented by Hamish Stewart (Bremen, Germany), Anastassios Giannakopulos (Bremen, Germany), Alexander Kholomeev (Bremen, Germany), Dmitry Grinfeld (Bremen, Germany), Alexander Makarov (Bremen, Germany), Christian Hock (Bremen, Germany), Matthias Biel (Bremen, Germany) and Alexander Wagner (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mass spectrometer comprises: a first ion optical device in a relatively low gas pressure region; a second ion optical device in a...