ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,050, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOSHIBA ENERGY SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS Corp.; (Kawasaki, Japan) and NATIONAL INSTITUTES FOR QUANTUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Chiba, Japan).
"Superconducting coil apparatus, superconducting accelerator, and particle beam therapy apparatus" was invented by Shigeki Takayama (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Tomofumi Orikasa (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Kota Mizushima (Narashino Chiba, Japan), Yoshiyuki Iwata (Narashino Chiba, Japan), Yasushi Abe (Koshigaya Saitama, Japan) and Tetsuya Fujimoto (Yachiyo Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a superconducting coil apparatus com...