Patents by Inventor Raanan Miller

Raanan Miller 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 for plasma generation
    Patent number: 7279680
    Abstract: An RF-driven plasma source, including a pair of spaced-apart plasma electrodes, wherein the electrodes act as plates of a capacitor, the gas electrically discharges and creates a plasma of both positive and negative ions, in a clean process that enables efficient sample analysis, with preferred isolated sample photo-ionization, reduced-power operation and also including signal detection with modulated drive electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, Evgeny Krylov, Gary A. Eiceman, John A. Wright, Stephen D. Kendig, C. James Morris, Douglas B. Cameron
  • Systems for differential ion mobility analysis
    Publication number: 20070228269
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods and apparatus, for detection and identification of analytes in a volatilized or volatilizable sample, using the mobility-based signature that is produced when the volatilized sample is passed through an ion mobility based analyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicants: SIONEX CORPORATION, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Raanan Miller, Erkinjon Nazarov, Angela Zapata, Cristina Davis, Gary Eiceman, Anthony Bashall
  • Capacitive discharge plasma ion source
    Patent number: 7274015
    Abstract: In a system for chemical analysis, an RF-driven plasma ionization device including a pair of spaced-apart and plasma-isolated electrodes, the electrodes are connected to a power source wherein the electrodes act as plates of a capacitor of a resonant circuit, the gas electrically discharges and creates a plasma of both positive and negative ions, and the voltage is applied as a continuous alternating waveform or as a series of pulses, such as a packet waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, Evgeny Krylov, Gary A. Eiceman, Lawrence A. Kaufman
  • Explosives detection using differential mobility spectrometry
    Patent number: 7262407
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to ion mobility based systems, methods and devices for analyzing samples and, more particularly, in some embodiments to compact GC-DMS systems, methods, and devices employing enhanced GC column temperature control and configurations to identify various sample constituents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, David B. Wheeler, Quan Shi, John A. Wright, Gary A. Eiceman
  • Solid-state flow generator and related systems, applications, and methods
    Publication number: 20070187590
    Abstract: The invention, in various embodiments, is directed to an analyzer using a solid-state flow generator to provide effluent flow along a flow path and deliver a sample to an ion mobility based filter and detector for analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2007
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Raanan Miller, John Wright
  • Method and apparatus for enhanced ion mobility based sample analysis using various analyzer configurations
    Publication number: 20070176092
    Abstract: A system for analyzing one or more ion species of a sample including a first ion mobility filter associated with a first flow path for passing first ions of the sample, a second ion mobility filter associated with a second flow path for passing second ions of the sample, a first outlet from the first flow path for passing a portion of the first ions from the first flow path to the second flow path, and a first outlet from the second flow path for removing neutral particles from the second flow path where the first outlet from the second flow path is upstream of the second ion mobility filter in relation to the ion flow in the second flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SIONEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raanan Miller, Evgeny Krylov, Erkinjon Nazarov, Gary Eiceman, John Wright
  • Systems for differential ion mobility analysis
    Patent number: 7241989
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods and apparatus, for detection and identification of analytes in a volatilized or volatilizable sample, using the mobility-based signature that is produced when the volatilized sample is passed through an ion mobility based analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Sionex Corp.
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, Angela Zapata, Cristina E. Davis, Gary A. Eiceman, Anthony D. Bashall
  • Method and apparatus for control of mobility-based ion species identification
    Patent number: 7230238
    Abstract: System for control of ion species behavior in a time-varying filter field of an ion mobility-based spectrometer to improve species identification, based on control of electrical and environmental aspects of sample analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, Evgeny Krylov, Gary A. Eiceman
  • Mobility based apparatus and methods using dispersion characteristics, sample fragmentation, and/or pressure control to improve analysis of a sample
    Patent number: 7227134
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to ion mobility-based systems, methods and devices for analyzing samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, Lawrence A. Kaufman, Douglas B. Cameron
  • Solid-state gas flow generator and related systems, applications, and methods
    Patent number: 7223970
    Abstract: The invention, in various embodiments, is directed to a solid-state flow generator and related systems, methods and applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, John A. Wright
  • Pancake spectrometer
    Patent number: 7217920
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for identification of chemical compounds in a sample based on differences in ion mobility, wherein the filter and detector electrodes are formed radially spaced on facing substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Mark C. Terrell
  • Method and apparatus for chromatography-high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry
    Patent number: 7211791
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for chromatographic high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry, including a gas chromatographic analyzer section intimately coupled with an ionization section, an ion filter section, and an ion detection section, in which the sample compounds are at least somewhat separated prior to ionization, and ion filtering proceeds in a planar chamber under influence of high field asymmetric periodic signals, with detection integrated into the flow path, for producing accurate, real-time, orthogonal data for identification of a broad range of chemical compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, Gary A. Eiceman, Evgeny Krylov, Boris Tadjikov
  • Method and apparatus for electrospray-augmented high field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry
    Publication number: 20070084999
    Abstract: A field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometer apparatus and system including a sample preparation and introduction section, a head for delivery of ions from a sample, an ion filtering section, an output part, and an electronics part wherein the filter section includes surfaces defining a flow path, further including ion filter electrodes facing each other over the flow path that enables the flow of ions derived from the sample between the electrodes and wherein the electronics part applies controlling signals to the electrodes for generating a filter field for filtering the flow of ions in the flow path while being compensated to pass desired ion species out of the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2006
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Applicant: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Raanan Miller, Erkinjon Nazarov, Gary Eiceman, Evgeny Krylov
  • Systems and methods for ion mobility control
    Publication number: 20070045530
    Abstract: The invention provides, in various embodiments, systems and methods relating to controlling ion behavior in an ion-based analysis system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: SIONEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raanan Miller, Clayton Morris, Douglas Cameron, Erkinjon Nazarov, John Wright
  • Method and apparatus for chromatography-high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry
    Patent number: 7176453
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for chromatographic high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry, including a gas chromatographic analyzer section intimately coupled with an ionization section, an ion filter section, and an ion detection section, in which the sample compounds are at least somewhat separated prior to ionization, and ion filtering proceeds in a planar chamber under influence of high field asymmetric periodic signals, with detection integrated into the flow path, for producing accurate, real-time, orthogonal data for identification of a broad range of chemical compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, Gary A. Eiceman, Evgeny Krylov, Boris Tadjikov
  • Compact gas chromatography and ion mobility based sample analysis systems, methods, and devices
    Publication number: 20070029477
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to ion mobility based systems, methods and devices for analyzing samples and, more particularly, in some embodiments to compact GC-DMS systems, methods, and devices employing enhanced GC column temperature control and configurations to identify various sample constituents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: SIONEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raanan Miller, Erkinjon Nazarov, David Wheeler, Kenneth Markoski
  • System for collection of data and identification of unknown ion species in an electric field
    Patent number: 7157700
    Abstract: An apparatus for identification of chemical species by measurement of mobility as a function of high electric field and for generating unique compound-dependent signatures based on ion mobility at a plurality of peak RF voltages for a given compensation. The resulting detection data is compared against a library of data in order to identify a detected chemical species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Kaufman, Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, Gary A. Eiceman, Evgeny Krylov
  • Combined mass and differential mobility spectrometry and associated methods, systems, and devices
    Publication number: 20060289745
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to systems, methods and devices for analyzing samples and, more particularly, to systems using a mass analyzer in combination with a differential mobility spectrometer to enhance the analysis process of constituents of a sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Inventors: Raanan Miller, Erkinjon Nazarov, Paul Vouros, Daren Levin
  • System for trajectory-based ion species identification
    Patent number: 7148477
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for field ion mobility spectrometry for identification of chemical compounds in a sample by trajectory of sample ions in a transverse electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Sionex Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan A. Miller, Erkinjon G. Nazarov, Lawrence A. Kaufman
  • Spectrometer chip assembly
    Publication number: 20060255255
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for high field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry in an electronic chip assembly, including an input section, an ion filter and detection section and a control section, in which ion filtering proceeds in a planar chamber under influence of high field asymmetric periodic signals, with detection integrated into the flow path, for producing accurate, real-time, data for identification of a broad range of chemical compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Applicant: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Raanan Miller, William Robbins