US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Inductive detector with integrated amplifier" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,343, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Inductive detector with integrated amplifier" was invented by Joseph A. Jarrell (Newton Highlands, Mass.), Patrick Brophy (Newton Highlands, Mass.) and Alistair J. Schofield (Oldham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image charge detection assembly for a mass spectrometer comprising an image charge detector that is housed within an electrically conductive shielding enclosure, and a preamplifier, wherein at least an input stage of the preamplifier, which is electrically connected to the detector, is housed with the detector within the ...