Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multiplexed time of flight mass spectrometer
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Application No.: US17440998Application Date: 2020-02-27
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Publication No.: US12205813B2Publication Date: 2025-01-21
- Inventor: Jason Lee Wildgoose , John Brian Hoyes , Richard Denny
- Applicant: Micromass UK Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Wilmslow
- Assignee: Micromass UK Limited
- Current Assignee: Micromass UK Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Wilmslow
- Agency: Goodwin Procter LLP
- Priority: GB1903779 20190320
- International Application: PCT/GB2020/050471 WO 20200227
- International Announcement: WO2020/188236 WO 20200924
- Main IPC: H01J49/40
- IPC: H01J49/40 ; H01J49/00

Abstract:
A method of time of flight (ToF) mass spectrometry comprising: pushing ions into a ToF mass analyser in a plurality of pushes, wherein the time spacing between adjacent pushes is shorter than either the longest flight time, or the range of flight times, of the ions; detecting the ions so as to obtain spectral data; decoding the spectral data to determine first mass spectral data relating to ions pushed into the ToF mass analyser by a first plurality of the pushes (P1-P4), and allocating this first mass spectral data to a first time stamp (t1); and decoding the spectral data to determine second mass spectral data relating to ions pushed into the ToF mass analyser by a second plurality of the pushes (P5-P8), and allocating this second mass spectral data to a second time-stamp (t2); wherein the first and second time-stamps have a time difference therebetween that is shorter than said longest flight time, or said range of flight times (4), in the ToF mass analyser.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220165560A1 MULTIPLEXED TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETER Public/Granted day:2022-05-26
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