US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH on April 7 for "Beam transport system and method, accelerator including beam transport system, and ion source including the accelerator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,691, issued on April 7, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Beam transport system and method, accelerator including beam transport system, and ion source including the accelerator" was invented by Sakiko Ashikaga (Tokyo), Takamichi Aoki (Tokyo), Kazuya Nagashima (Tokyo), Takayoshi Seki (Tokyo) and Koichi Miyazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam transport system for transporting a charged particle beam, includes a magnetic field generation device that is provided in a transport line that transports the charged particle beam and generates a magnetic field parallel to a center orbit of the charged particle bea...