Patents by Inventor Stephan RAUSCHENBACH

Stephan RAUSCHENBACH has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and Apparatus of Preparing a Sample of One or More Molecule(s) for Imaging with a Cryo-Electron Microscope
    Publication number: 20230280245
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparing a sample of one or more molecule(s) for imaging with a cryo-electron microscope. The method comprises providing a carrier substrate, cryogenically cooling the carrier substrate to form a cryogenically-cooled carrier substrate, generating gas phase ions of the one or more molecule(s) by electrospray ionisation, decelerating the gas phase ions, receiving the gas phase ions on the cryogenically-cooled carrier substrate to form a sample for imaging with a cryo-electron microscope and shielding the cryogenically-cooled carrier substrate after the step of receiving the ions on the cryogenically-cooled carrier substrate. The step of decelerating the ions reduces the energy of each of the ions to be less than 20 eV per charge when received at the cryogenically-cooled carrier substrate. The present invention also relates to an apparatus for preparing a sample of one or more molecule(s) for a cryo-electron microscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Albert KONIJNENBERG, Tim ESSER, Paul FREMDLING, Joe GAULT, Stephan RAUSCHENBACH
  • Device for transferring ions from high to low pressure atmosphere, system and use
    Patent number: 9396917
    Abstract: Tube-like device (100) for transferring ions generated by means of ion generation source (4) comprising a cylindrical middle portion (104) and an inlet portion (102) for introduction of the ions in at least one ion cloud into the cylindrical middle portion (104), wherein a flow direction of the ions is along a longitudinal axis (L) of the tube-like device (100), wherein the inlet portion (102) is formed tapering funnel-like towards the cylindrical middle portion (104).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignees: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Wissenschaften E.V., TechNische Universitaet Berlin
    Inventors: Stephan Rauschenbach, Matthias Pauly, Gordon Rinke, Ralf Vogelgesang, Klaus Kern, Julius Reiss, Joern Sesterhenn, Mario Sroka
  • Device for Transferring Ions from High to Low Pressure Atmosphere, System and Use
    Publication number: 20160020078
    Abstract: Tube-like device (100) for transferring ions generated by means of ion generation source (4) comprising a cylindrical middle portion (104) and an inlet portion (102) for introduction of the ions in at least one ion cloud into the cylindrical middle portion (104), wherein a flow direction of the ions is along a longitudinal axis (L) of the tube-like device (100), wherein the inlet portion (102) is formed tapering funnel-like towards the cylindrical middle portion (104).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicants: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Wissenschaften E.V., Technische Universitaet Berlin
    Inventors: Stephan RAUSCHENBACH, Matthias Pauly, Gordon Rinke, Ralf Vogelgesang, Klaus Kern, Julius Reiss, Joern Sesterhenn, Mario Sroka