US Patent Issued to Thermo Finnigan on Aug. 18 for "Magnet positioning system for ion source" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,169, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Thermo Finnigan LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Magnet positioning system for ion source" was invented by Dustin D. Holden (Round Rock, Texas) and Nicholas A. Pedrazas (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mass spectrometer includes an ionization assembly including an ionization chamber and at least one ion lens. The removable ionization assembly has a primary axis defined by the direction of an ion beam exiting the ionization assembly, and the ionization chamber and the at least one ion lens arranged along the primary axis. The mass spectrometer further includes an electron source aligned a...