Patent 7424980 was granted and assigned to Bristol-Myers Squibb on September, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A nebulizer is provided for use as an ion source for a mass spectrometer. The nebulizer facilitates alignment with a mass spectrometer target, reduces sample and nebulizer gas leakage, is easy to assemble and disassemble, and operates over a wide range of sample flow rates.