US Patent Issued to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) on July 28 for "Collision cross section measurement in time-of-flight mass analyser" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,076, issued on July 28, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Collision cross section measurement in time-of-flight mass analyser" was invented by Hamish Stewart (Bremen, Germany) and Dmitry Grinfeld (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A time-of-flight (ToF) mass analyser determines mass to charge ratio (m/z) of ions by determining flight times along an ion path. In first and second modes of operation, flight times of the ions along the ion path are determined to obtain respective first and second sets of data. In the first and second modes, the ion path has first and second path lengt...