US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Sept. 15 for "Time-of-flight mass spectrometer and time-of-flight mass spectrometry method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,472, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Time-of-flight mass spectrometer and time-of-flight mass spectrometry method" was invented by Yuta Miyazaki (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomoyuki Oshiro (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A TOFMS includes flight space formation electrodes, an ion detection unit, voltage switching units to switch a voltage to be applied to the flight space formation electrode from a first voltage for flying ions of a first polarity to a second voltage for flying ions of a second polarity, ion information acquisition units to obtain a time of flight or a m/z of the ions based on ...