US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 25 for "Electron emission methods to generate electron beams with a narrow energy distribution" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,005, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Electron emission methods to generate electron beams with a narrow energy distribution" was invented by Alexander Stibor (San Francisco) and Cameron Johnson (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to electron emission. A method includes providing a nanotip field emitter. The nanotip field emitter includes a nanoprotrusion at a tip of the nanotip field emitter. The nanotip field emitter is cooled to a temperature. The temperature is about 80 Kelvin or lower. An...