ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,151, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).

"Method of selecting ions by ion mobility separation and isolation of ions" was invented by Martin Palmer (Altrincham, Great Britain), Eleanor Riches (Northwich, Great Britain), Jakub Ujma (Manchester, Great Britain), Jason Lee Wildgoose (Stockport, Great Britain), Martin Raymond Green (Bowdon, Great Britain), David J. Langridge (Macclesfield, Great Britain), Kevin Giles (Stockport, Great Britain), Steven Derek Pringle (Darwen, Great Britain) and Daniel James Kenny (Knutsford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selecting ions co...