ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,976, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).
"Atmospheric pressure ionisation source" was invented by Nicola Lumley (Wilmslow, Great Britain), David Douce (Wilmslow, Great Britain) and Gareth Rhys Jones (Wilmslow, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atmospheric pressure ionisation source comprising: an ionisation chamber, comprising an inlet for receiving at least the distal end of a capillary into the ionisation chamber in use; a desolvation heater including a heating element, for directing a stream of heated gas onto the distal end of the capillary in use; a corona discharge device ...