US Patent Issued to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) on March 31 for "Time-of-flight mass analysers" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,373, issued on March 31, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific (Bremen) GmbH (Bremen, Germany).

"Time-of-flight mass analysers" was invented by Christian Hock (Bremen, Germany), Alexander Wagner (Bremen, Germany), Hamish Stewart (Bremen, Germany), Dmitry Grinfeld (Bremen, Germany), Anastassios Giannakopulos (Bremen, Germany), Wilko Balschun (Bremen, Germany) and Alexander Makarov (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an assembly comprising a vacuum chamber and a time-of-flight mass spectrometer wherein the time-of-flight mass spectrometer is contained within the vacuum chamber. The time-...