US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Sept. 1 for "Mass spectrometer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,773, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Nishinokyo, Japan).

"Mass spectrometer" was invented by Tomoya Kudo (Kyoto, Japan) and Kohei Hosoo (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mass spectrometer includes an ion source unit including: a housing; a cover accommodating the housing; an enclosure accommodating the cover; a probe passing through the cover and housing to nebulize a liquid sample into the housing; a heated gas nozzle including a main body portion being hollow and located between the cover and the housing to discharge a gas heated by a heater in the main body portion into the housing; enclosure intake...