Patents by Inventor Kelley L. Waters

Kelley L. Waters 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).

  • Publication number: 20220404298
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Applicant: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Patent number: 11391681
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Publication number: 20210116402
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Patent number: 10876982
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Publication number: 20200013606
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Patent number: 10446383
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Publication number: 20170221691
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Publication number: 20160189942
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Patent number: 9297761
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: IONWERKS, INC.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Patent number: 8829428
    Abstract: Described is an analytical method and apparatus for counting and measuring the flight time of secondary electrons, secondary ions and neutrals, scattered ions and/or neutrals and for correlating coincidences between these while maintaining a continuous un-pulsed, micro-focused, primary particle beam for impinging a surface for purposes of microprobe imaging and microanalysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Publication number: 20140084153
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: IONWERKS, INC.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Patent number: 8614416
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Patent number: 8558168
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for ionizing a neutral MALDI desorption plume, and in particular, for efficiently measuring the ionized MALDI desorption plume when post-ionization techniques are combined with a medium pressure MALDI-IM-oTOFMS instrument. Additionally, the present disclosure provides a method and apparatus that simultaneously separates tissue-sample MALDI ions by IM-oTOFMS according to their chemical family. After separation, the MALDI ions are directly compared to the ions created by post-ionizing the co-desorbed neutral molecules with a second laser wherein the second laser is delayed by a few hundred microseconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Kelley L. Waters
  • Patent number: 8519329
    Abstract: The present invent provides a particle detector for counting and measuring the flight time of secondary electrons and scattered ions and neutrals and to correlate coincidences between these and backscattered ions/and neutrals while maintaining a continuous unpulsed microfocused primary ion beam for impinging a surface. Intensities of the primary particle scattering and secondary particle emissions are correlated with the position of impact of the focused beam onto a materials surface so that a spatially resolved surface elemental and electronic structural mapping is obtained by scanning the focused beam across the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Steven R. Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Patent number: 8384023
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for ionizing a neutral MALDI desorption plume, and in particular, for efficiently measuring the ionized MALDI desorption plume when post-ionization techniques are combined with a medium pressure MALDI-IM-oTOFMS instrument. Additionally, the present disclosure provides a method and apparatus that simultaneously separates tissue-sample MALDI ions by IM-oTOFMS according to their chemical family. After separation, the MALDI ions are directly compared to the ions created by post-ionizing the co-desorbed neutral molecules with a second laser wherein the second laser is delayed by a few hundred microseconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Kelley L. Waters, Ernest K. Lewis
  • Publication number: 20120085898
    Abstract: The present invent provides a particle detector for counting and measuring the flight time of secondary electrons and scattered ions and neutrals and to correlate coincidences between these and backscattered ions/and neutrals while maintaining a continuous unpulsed microfocused primary ion beam for impinging a surface. Intensities of the primary particle scattering and secondary particle emissions are correlated with the position of impact of the focused beam onto a materials surface so that a spatially resolved surface elemental and electronic structural mapping is obtained by scanning the focused beam across the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Thomas F. Egan, J. Albert Schultz, Steven R. Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Publication number: 20120018630
    Abstract: Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Ernest K. Lewis, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Patent number: 8101909
    Abstract: The present invent provides a particle detector for counting and measuring the flight time of secondary electrons and scattered ions and neutrals and to correlate coincidences between these and backscattered ions/and neutrals while maintaining a continuous unpulsed microfocused primary ion beam for impinging a surface. Intensities of the primary particle scattering and secondary particle emissions are correlated with the position of impact of the focused beam onto a materials surface so that a spatially resolved surface elemental and electronic structural mapping is obtained by scanning the focused beam across the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ionwerks, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas F. Egan, J. Albert Schultz, Steven R. Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Publication number: 20110147578
    Abstract: Described is an analytical method and apparatus for counting and measuring the flight time of secondary electrons, secondary ions and neutrals, scattered ions and/or neutrals and for correlating coincidences between these while maintaining a continuous un-pulsed, micro-focused, primary particle beam for impinging a surface for purposes of microprobe imaging and microanalysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: IONWERKS, INC.
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Steven Ulrich, Kelley L. Waters
  • Publication number: 20100200742
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for ionizing a neutral MALDI desorption plume, and in particular, for efficiently measuring the ionized MALDI desorption plume when post-ionization techniques are combined with a medium pressure MALDI-IM-oTOFMS instrument. Additionally, the present disclosure provides a method and apparatus that simultaneously separates tissue-sample MALDI ions by IM-oTOFMS according to their chemical family. After separation, the MALDI ions are directly compared to the ions created by post-ionizing the co-desorbed neutral molecules with a second laser wherein the second laser is delayed by a few hundred microseconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: J. Albert Schultz, Thomas F. Egan, Kelley L. Waters, Ernest K. Lewis