US Patent Issued to Trace Matters Scientific on Aug. 5 for "System and method for ion packet formation, delivery, and calibration in mass spectrometry" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,770, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Trace Matters Scientific LLC (North Bethesda, Md.).

"System and method for ion packet formation, delivery, and calibration in mass spectrometry" 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 first and second ion sources that produce ions, the ions produced by the second ion source being calibration ions to calibrate the mass spectrometry system; an ion transfer device that receives the ions as a continuous stream during a first time period and forms a first ion packet as a single ion packet, such that during a secon...