US Patent Issued to Thermo Finnigan, Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) on Jan. 20 for "Flow recirculation for mobility separation improvement" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,679, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.) and Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Flow recirculation for mobility separation improvement" was invented by Mikhail V. Ugarov (San Jose, Calif.), Vladimir Gurevich (Cupertino, Calif.), Pablo Nieto Ramos (Campbell, Calif.) and Alexander A. Makarov (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion mobility analyser is disclosed having a gas flow directed along the ion travel axis and a set of electrodes to which DC voltages are applied to establish a DC field. The opposing forces of the gas flow and DC field cause ions to be t...