ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,972, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).
"Atmospheric solids analysis source assembly" was invented by Arvind Rangan (Singapore), Veronica Lum (Singapore), Carl Chen (Singapore), Steven Rocha (Singapore), Enchen Guo (Singapore), Nicola Lumley (Wilmslow, Great Britain) and David Douce (Wilmslow, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nozzle for directing heated gas onto the distal end of a capillary arrangeable adjacent the nozzle, the nozzle comprising: a housing defining a plenum for heated gas; and at outlet comprising at least one aperture fluidly connected to the plenum, the outle...