US Patent Issued to THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC (BREMEN) on Sept. 16 for "Ion trapping scheme with improved mass range" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. RE50,588, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC (BREMEN) GMBH (Bremen, Germany).

"Ion trapping scheme with improved mass range" was invented by Dirk Nolting (Bremen, Germany), Alexander A. Makarov (Bremen, Germany) and Amelia Corinne Peterson (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Trapping ions in an ion trapping assembly is described. In one aspect, this is implemented by introducing ions into the ion trapping assembly, applying a first RF trapping amplitude to the ion trapping assembly so as to trap introduced ions which have m/z ratios within a first range of m/z ratios, and cooling the trapped ions. In s...