ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,075, issued on July 28, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).
"Ion mirror" was invented by Dmitry Grinfeld (Bremen, Germany), Hamish Stewart (Bremen, Germany), Christian Hock (Bremen, Germany), Alexander Wagner (Bremen, Germany), Wilko Balschun (Bremen, Germany) and Alexander Makarov (Bremen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion mirror for a time of flight mass spectrometer (ToF) is provided. The ion mirror is elongated from a first end to a second end along a drift direction (z) and is configured to reflect ions in a reflection direction (y) orthogonal to the drift direction. The ion mirr...