US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on June 23 for "Particle beam therapy device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,530, issued on June 23, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Particle beam therapy device" was invented by Hiroshi Tsutsui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particle beam therapy device that irradiates a patient with a cation beam to perform treatment, the device including a passage selection unit that selectively passes through the cation beam among a mixed beam in which the cation beam and other species of a beam having a nuclide different from that of the cation beam are mixed after passing through a deflection magnetic field, after causing the mixed beam to pass through the deflection magnetic field, in ...