Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Gangqiang Li

33Patents
12h-index
19Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 20, 1989 → Oct 15, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5614711A Time-of-flight mass spectrometer Performing Operations; Transporting 113 Expired
US5017780A Ion reflector Electricity 52 Expired
US6593570B2 Ion optic components for mass spectrometers Electricity 46 Expired
US6727495B2 Ion mobility spectrometer with high ion transmission efficiency Physics 32 Expired
US6462337B1 Mass spectrometer electrospray ionization Chemistry; Metallurgy 31 Expired
US6242735A Power-modulated inductively coupled plasma spectrometry Electricity 31 Expired
US6570153B1 Tandem mass spectrometry using a single quadrupole mass analyzer Electricity 27 Expired
US8642951B2 Device, system, and method for reflecting ions Electricity 24 Active
US6222186A Power-modulated inductively coupled plasma spectrometry Electricity 21 Expired
US5654543A Mass spectrometer and related method Electricity 17 Expired
US6642516B1 Apparatus and method of laser dissociation for mass spectrometry Electricity 14 Expired
US7495210B2 Micro fluidic gas assisted ionization device and method Performing Operations; Transporting 13 Active
US6759651B1 Ion guides for mass spectrometry Electricity 12 Expired
US6274866A Systems and methods of mass spectrometry Electricity 12 Expired
US7279681B2 Ion trap with built-in field-modifying electrodes and method of operation Electricity 10 Expired
US6700118B2 Thermal drift compensation to mass calibration in time-of-flight mass spectrometry Electricity 10 Expired
US7208726B2 Ion trap mass spectrometer with scanning delay ion extraction Electricity 9 Expired
US7642508B2 Micro fluidic gas assisted ionization structure and method Performing Operations; Transporting 8 Active
US7372042B2 Lens device for introducing a second ion beam into a primary ion path Electricity 8 Active
US7557343B2 Segmented rod multipole as ion processing cell Electricity 7 Active
US6639217B1 In-line matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS) systems and methods of use Electricity 7 Expired
US7449687B2 Methods and compositions for combining ions and charged particles Electricity 5 Expired
US7397027B2 Multi-channel high-field asymmetric waveform ion mobility spectrometry Physics 4 Active
US7755040B2 Mass spectrometer and electric field source for mass spectrometer Electricity 4 Active
US7388193B2 Time-of-flight spectrometer with orthogonal pulsed ion detection Electricity 3 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.