US Patent Issued to Quad Mass on Aug. 25 for "System for production of high yield of ions in RF only confinement field for use in mass spectrometry" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,041, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Quad Mass Corp. (Thornhill, Canada).

"System for production of high yield of ions in RF only confinement field for use in mass spectrometry" was invented by Gholamreza Javahery (Thornhill, Canada), Victor Titov (Etobicoke, Canada), Dmitry Valyaev (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Fadi Jozif (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined ion discharge tube and an ion guide system is disclosed. The ion discharge tube comprises of a cathode tube and an anode surface. The discharge tube acts as the cathode, whereas the anode can be any number of different configurations. In one embodiment ...