US Patent Issued to Trace Matters Scientific on Aug. 5 for "Mass spectrometry system and method with controlled ion transfer" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,771, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Trace Matters Scientific LLC (North Bethesda, Md.).

"Mass spectrometry system and method with controlled ion transfer" was invented by Mazdak Taghioskoui (North Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion transfer device of a mass spectrometry system that includes a first ion guide such that the first ion guide traps the ions in a first potential well formed by a first potential gradient and a first potential barrier within the first ion guide, and a second ion guide that receives the ions from the first ion guide if the first potential barrier is reduced such that during a time period wh...