ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,015, issued on July 21, was assigned to DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Planar ion processing station" was invented by Aaron Timothy Booy (Concord, Canada) and James Hager (Concord, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an ion guide for use in a mass spectrometer is disclosed, which comprises a pair of printed circuit boards (PCBs) having an inlet for receiving a plurality of ions from an upstream ion source and outlet through which the ions exit the ion guide. The ion guide includes at least two ion paths provided in the space between the two PCBs for transmission of ions from the inlet to the outl...