US Patent Issued to NPL MANAGEMENT on March 24 for "Ion microtrap assembly and method of making of making such an assembly" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,526, issued on March 24, was assigned to NPL MANAGEMENT Ltd. (Teddington, Great Britain).

"Ion microtrap assembly and method of making of making such an assembly" was invented by Alastair Sinclair (Teddington, Great Britain), Guido Wilpers (Teddington, Great Britain), Kaushal Choonee (Teddington, Great Britain), Garrie Vickers (Livingston, Great Britain) and Bill Ashby (Livingston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion-trap chip carrier (10) comprises a generally planar carrier substrate, the substrate having a front surface, a rear surface, and a chip receptacle. A chip support (22) is disposed in the chip receptacle ...