Ionfinity Subsidiary Issued Broad-Based Patent on Applications of New Ion Source
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — VIASPACE Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board:VSPC —News), a company that transforms proven space and defense technologies from NASA and the Department of Defense into hardware and software solutions that solve today’s complex problems, announced that its subsidiary company, Ionfinity, has been issued its fourth patent, U.S. Pat. No. 6,940,074 entitled: “Devices incorporating soft ionization membrane” on September 6, 2005. The patent covers a wide variety of next generation devices incorporating Ionfinity’s advanced nanotechnology ionizers including devices utilizing electron streams such as light sources, electron bombardment sensors, thyratrons, vacuum tubes, plasma displays, microwave switches, and applications utilizing ion streams such as ion focused milling, maskless ion implantation, ion beam lithography, and semiconductor mask modification. The announcement was made by Dr. Carl Kukkonen, CEO of VIASPACE.
Ionfinity is developing mass spectrometry technology for industrial process control and homeland security/national defense applications. Ionfinity has a contract with the Navy to develop a portable mass spectrometer to detect industrial chemicals and chemical warfare agents in air and water samples. The company also has a contract from the US Air Force to apply the soft ionization membrane technology to electric propulsion for nano satellites
The soft ionization membrane, invented by Ionfinity cofounder, Frank Hartley, formerly at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is a new technique to produce ions which are then used in a variety of commercial and defense applications. The soft ionization membrane produces ions very efficiently without fragmenting the samples as many other ionization techniques do. This leads to higher sensitivity and allows tabletop laboratory instruments, such as mass spectrometers, to be miniaturized and made portable. In the process of producing ions, electrons are also produced and the current patent also covers applications of these electrons.
Ionfinity has three other patents on its soft ionization membrane technology (U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,828,552, 6,642,526, and 6,610,986) and has an exclusive license from Caltech to U.S. Pat. No. 6,921,906 which relates to the use of an ionization membrane in connection with a rotating field mass spectrometer.
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Dr. Carl Kukkonen, CEO
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