US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on July 28 for "Vacuum sealed RF resonator cavity for LINAC" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,373, issued on July 28, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vacuum sealed RF resonator cavity for LINAC" was invented by William H. Leavitt (Haverhill, Mass.), William Herron Park Jr. (Marblehead, Mass.) and Jason M. Schaller (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An RF resonator cavity that includes a resonator coil is disclosed. Unlike traditional RF resonator cavities, no sulfur hexafluoride is used in this cavity. Rather, the volume of the RF resonator cavity is pumped to vacuum conditions. This may be done using a vacuum system, or by hermetically sealing the cavity. This approach eliminates the...