ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,567, issued on May 5, was assigned to MOBILion Systems Inc. (Chadds Ford, Pa.).
"Apparatus for ion manipulation having curved turn regions" was invented by Liulin Deng (Chester Springs, Pa.), Adam Michael Engelson (Glen Mills, Pa.) and John Daniel DeBord (West Grove, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for ion manipulations includes an ion manipulation path extending between an inlet and an outlet, at least one continuous electrode configured to receive a first RF voltage signal, and a plurality of segmented electrodes configured to receive a second voltage signal and generate a traveling wave field based thereon. The ion m...