US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Axially progressive lens for transporting charged particles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,750, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Axially progressive lens for transporting charged particles" was invented by Tong Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Curt A. Flory (Los Altos, Calif.) and Gershon Perelman (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic lens for transporting charged particles in an axial direction includes a first group of first electrodes configured to receive a first DC potential from a DC voltage source, and a second group of second electrodes configured to receive a second DC potential from the DC voltage source different from the first DC potential...