US Patent Issued to UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS on Nov. 3 for "Technique for multi-stream electron beam generation with different energies and comparable currents from a single cathode potential for high power microwave sources" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,022, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Technique for multi-stream electron beam generation with different energies and comparable currents from a single cathode potential for high power microwave sources" was invented by Khandakar Nusrat Islam (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Edl Schamiloglu (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating multi-stream electron beams is disclosed, the method including connecting an inner cathode to a cathode stalk, connecting an outer cathode to the cathode stalk, driving the cathode stalk with a pulsed power generator at a single potent...