US Patent Issued to Micromass UK on Aug. 11 for "System for determining the cleanliness of mass spectrometer ion optics" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,290, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).

"System for determining the cleanliness of mass spectrometer ion optics" was invented by David Gordon (Middlewich, Great Britain), Nicola Lumley (Wilmslow, Great Britain), Alastair Booth (Glossop, Great Britain) and Richard Moulds (Stockport, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising: an ion detector; ion optics for guiding ions to the ion detector; one or more voltage supply for supplying voltages to said ion optics; control circuitry for controlling the one or more voltage supply so as to switch the io...