ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,292, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Apparatus and method for ion separation" was invented by Joshua Silveira (Gilroy, Calif.), Michael Senko (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Pablo Nieto Ramos (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for sorting ions including a group of multipole electrodes configured to form an ion trap, and an ion guide adjacent to, and operably coupled to the group of multipole electrodes. Using a radio frequency (RF) or Direct Current (CD) power supply device the system can apply an RF voltage to the group of multipole electrodes...