News
July 2020
SPion™ selected for NASA Entrepreneurs Challenge
SPion™ has been selected as one of the 10 finalists for NASA Science Mission Directorate Entrepreneurs Challenge to compete for a $1,000,000 prize pool under the advanced mass spectrometry category.
July 2020
Key patent is issued for SPion™
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued Patent No. 10,720,315 entitled “Reconfigurable Sequentially-Packed Ion (SPion) Transfer Device.” The issuance of this patent for Trace Matters’ flexible ion guide technology is an important milestone in the development and commercialization of this technology.
February 2020
Trace Matters Scientific introduces SPion™ technology to enable in vivo mass spectrometry.
June 2018
NASA PICASSO award
NASA, UMD, and Trace Matters team receive NASA award to develop mini ICP-MS system.
June 2017
NASA STTR award
Trace Matters receives NASA STTR award to develop ambinet ion source for Mars.