ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,774, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Micromass UK Ltd (Wilmslow, Great Britain).

"Guide arrangement for a capillary holder" was invented by Pham Hoang Vu Ngo (Singapore), Arvind Rangan (Singapore), Veronica Lum (Singapore), Steven Rocha (Singapore), Zhi Yin (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 guide arrangement for a capillary holder A guide arrangement for a capillary holder of the type having a housing and a capillary protruding from the housing, the guide arrangement comprising: a bracket; and a carriage translatably arranged with respect ...