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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,073, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Trace Matters Scientific LLC (North Bethesda, Md.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mass spectrometry system that includes an ion source that produces ions, an ion transfer device, and a mass analyzer. The ion transfer device includes a first ion transfer device that receives ions from an inlet and transfers ions to an outlet, and includes a plurality of first plate electrodes that are stacked, each plate electrode having a hole with a same diameter, and separated b...