US Patent Issued to National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology on Jan. 27 for "Carbon ion generating device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,113, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (Chiba, Japan).

"Carbon ion generating device" was invented by Kotaro Kondo (Chiba, Japan), Sadaoki Kojima (Chiba, Japan), Hiromitsu Kiriyama (Chiba, Japan), Mamiko Nishiuchi (Chiba, Japan), Hironao Sakaki (Chiba, Japan), Masaki Hashida (Kyoto, Japan) and Syunsuke Inoue (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generation of impurity ions is prevented or reduced in a carbon ion generating device in which a laser-driven ion acceleration system is employed. A carbon ion generating device generates a carbonized region by irradiating a film ...