ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,077, issued on July 28, was assigned to DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Nested electrostatic linear ion traps and methods of operating the same" was invented by Eric Thomas Dziekonski (Concord, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for operating an ELIT are provided herein. In accordance with various aspects of the present teachings, and ELIT is provided that can enable simultaneous trapping of two different groups of ions as each group oscillates along a different path length within the ELIT."

The patent was filed on Feb. 24, 2022, under Application No. 18/278,680.

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