US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on March 3 for "Ultra-high dose rate x-ray cabinet irradiator" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,734, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Ultra-high dose rate x-ray cabinet irradiator" was invented by John Wai-Chiu Wong (Baltimore), Mohammad Rezaee (Baltimore) and Iulian Iordachita (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An x-ray irradiation system includes a first x-ray tube constructed and arranged to be able to irradiate an object with at least a portion of a first x-ray beam emitted from the first x-ray tube, and a second x-ray tube constructed and arranged to be able to irradiate the object with at least a portion of a second x-ray beam emitted from said second x-ray tube simultan...