US Patent Issued to TOFWERK on June 23 for "Ion molecule reactor and setup for analyzing complex mixtures" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,180, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOFWERK AG (Thun, Switzerland).

"Ion molecule reactor and setup for analyzing complex mixtures" was invented by Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker (Bern, Switzerland), Manuel Hutterli (Bern, Switzerland), Marc Gonin (Thun, Switzerland), Carsten Stoermer (Thun, Switzerland) and Michael Kamrath (Thun, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion molecule reactor for generating analyte ions from analytes comprises: a) a reaction volume in which reagent ions can interact with the analytes in order to form analyte ions; b) at least one analyte inlet for introducing the analytes along an inlet path into the ...