US Patent Issued to DH Technologies Development on June 9 for "Methods and apparatus for washing sampling probe for use in mass spectrometry systems" (Canadian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,735, issued on June 9, was assigned to DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods and apparatus for washing sampling probe for use in mass spectrometry systems" was invented by Thomas R. Covey (Newmarket, Canada), Tim Haebe (Ingelheim Am Rhein, Germany) and Chang Liu (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for delivering a liquid sample to an ion source for the generation of ions and subsequent analysis by mass spectrometry are provided herein. In accordance with various aspects of the present teachings, MS-based systems and methods are provided in which an open port of a sampling pro...