US Patent Issued to Micromass UK on Nov. 3 for "Mass spectrometer having high sampling duty cycle" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,057, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd. (Wilmslow, Great Britain).

"Mass spectrometer having high sampling duty cycle" was invented by Jason Lee Wildgoose (Stockport, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-reflecting time of flight mass spectrometer (8) comprising: a mass filter or mass separator (6); an ion accelerator (14) for pulsing packets of ions; ion mirrors (10) arranged to receive the ions from the ion accelerator (14) and reflect them in a first dimension (x-dimension) between the ion mirrors (10) as the ions travel in a second dimension (z-dimension); first (20) and second (22) ion reflectors ...