US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Aug. 25 for "Accelerator system and discharge detector" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,922, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Accelerator system and discharge detector" was invented by Satoshi Tsubomatsu (Niihama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accelerator system includes an accelerator that accelerates particles, and a discharge detector that detects discharge inside the accelerator, in which the discharge detector blocks the discharge at a preliminary stage in which an influence of the discharge occurs inside the accelerator, based on detecting continuous discharge."

The patent was filed on Dec. 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/991,301.

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