News
November 2020
Second patent is issued for SPion™
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued Patent No. 10,840,077 entitled “Reconfigurable Sequentially-Packed Ion (SPion) Transfer Device.”
October 2020
SPion™ wins $100,000 prize from NASA's SMD challenge
SPion™ has been chosen as a winner of the $100,000 prize award from NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Entrepreneurs Challenge.
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.”
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.