US Patent Issued to Fermi Forward Discovery Group on Nov. 3 for "High-vacuum bellows radio frequency (RF) shield corrector system and associated methods" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,147, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Fermi Forward Discovery Group LLC (Chicago).

"High-vacuum bellows radio frequency (RF) shield corrector system and associated methods" was invented by Tyler Funk (Batavia, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: 1) positioning an inflatable pipe plug inside a high-vacuum beam line assembly proximate an axial gap between two beam tubes mechanically connected by a bellows-encased radio frequency (RF) shield; 2) inflating a balloon of the pipe plug proximate the axial gap to exert a uniform pressure along dislocated fingers of the RF shield; 3) angularly bending the bellows to enlar...