PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15877475
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["250", "489000"]

Abstract:
A linear ion trap includes at least two discrete trapping regions for processing ions and at least one gas pulse valve for applying pulses of gas to dynamically control pressure in the at least two discrete trapping regions. A RF electrical potential generator produces two RF waveforms, each applied to a pair of pole electrodes of the linear ion trap forming a RF trapping field component to trap ions radially. A multi-output DC electrical potential generator produces multiple DC field components superimposed to the RF trapping field component and distributed across the length of the linear ion trap to control ions axially. A control unit is configured to switch the DC electrical potentials and corresponding DC field components collectively forming a first trapping region of the at least two discrete trapping regions that is populated with ions to alter ion potential energy from a first level to a second level, and to enable at least a first ion processing step in at least one of the first and second levels.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for processing ions in a linear ion trap, the method comprising:\n providing a linear ion trap defining a trapping field; controlling pressure in the trapping field dynamically by using a gas pulse valve; trapping ions in the trapping field produced by the superposition of a RF trapping field component for radial confinement of the ions and multiple DC field components for axial control of the ions; distributing the multiple DC field components spatially along the axis of the linear ion trap to form at least two discrete trapping regions; subjecting ions in a first of the at least two discrete trapping regions at at least a first potential energy level to at least a first processing step; and altering ion potential energy by switching at least a portion of the multiple DC field components collectively to facilitate further processing of ions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34667
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15015101', '12111484', '14158111', '10806933', '12668813']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7345662156705202
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.598532049273289
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7209627990307971
- Mean Citation Score: 351.53671
- Max Citation Score: 541.33185
- Similarity Product: 478.9705913471639

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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