Patents by Inventor Kieran Flanagan

Kieran Flanagan 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 of determining presence of isotopes
    Patent number: 10629419
    Abstract: A method of determining the presence of isotopes in a sample, comprising (i) providing a sample beam containing the sample; (ii) causing the sample beam to travel back and forth along a single longitudinal axis; (iii) ionising the sample beam with one or more lasers, wherein ionising the sample beam comprises operating the one or more lasers at a plurality of frequencies; (iv) determining time of flight data of a first part of the sample beam relative to a second part of the sample beam; (v) determining an ionisation time using the time of flight data; (vi) obtaining data relating to the frequency of the one or more lasers at the ionisation time; and (vii) determining the presence of isotopes in the sample using the data relating to the frequency of the one or more lasers at the ionisation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
    Inventor: Kieran Flanagan
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING THE PRESENCE OF IONS IN A SAMPLE BY RESONANCE IONIZATION
    Publication number: 20190259596
    Abstract: A method of determining the presence ions in a sample, comprising: (i) resonantly ionising a sample beam containing the sample with one or more lasers arranged collinearly with the sample beam; (ii) obtaining data relating to resonantly produced electrons resulting from the ionisation of the sample beam; and (iii) determining the presence of ions in the sample using the data relating to resonant electrons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Kieran FLANAGAN, Andrada FLUERAS, Cory BINNERSLEY
  • METHOD OF DETERMINING PRESENCE OF ISOTOPES
    Publication number: 20190244797
    Abstract: A method of determining the presence of isotopes in a sample, comprising (i) providing a sample beam containing the sample; (ii) causing the sample beam to travel back and forth along a single longitudinal axis; (iii) ionising the sample beam with one or more lasers, wherein ionising the sample beam comprises operating the one or more lasers at a plurality of frequencies; (iv) determining time of flight data of a first part of the sample beam relative to a second part of the sample beam; (v) determining an ionisation time using the time of flight data; (vi) obtaining data relating to the frequency of the one or more lasers at the ionisation time; and (vii) determining the presence of isotopes in the sample using the data relating to the frequency of the one or more lasers at the ionisation time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventor: Kieran FLANAGAN