US Patent Issued to Triad National Security on Nov. 18 for "Ultra-compact ion mass spectrometer for space and laboratory plasma measurements" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,101, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Triad National Security LLC (Los Alamos, Texas).

"Ultra-compact ion mass spectrometer for space and laboratory plasma measurements" was invented by Carlos Alex Maldonado (Los Alamos, N.M.), Daniel Brett Reisenfeld (Los Alamos, N.M.), Gabriel Renner Wilson (Los Alamos, N.M.), Heidi Linette Morning (Los Alamos, N.M.), Daniel Wayne Arnold (Los Alamos, N.M.), Michael Andrew Holloway (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Justin Michael McGlown (Los Alamos, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide for an ion mass spectrometer. An example ion mass spectrometer includes a laminated collimator, a lamina...