US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on June 23 for "Ionizer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,181, issued on June 23, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Ionizer" was invented by Keisuke Iso (Kyoto, Japan), Yuki Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan), Fumihiko Hirata (Kyoto, Japan) and Shingo Fujioka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ionizer disposed in an ionization chamber separated from an analysis chamber by a partition provided with an ion introduction port, the ionizer including: an electrospray ionization probe 111 configured to charge and nebulize a liquid sample as charged droplets, the electrospray ionization probe being disposed such that a nebulization axis is orthogonal to a central axis of the ion intro...