US Patent Issued to Varian Medical Systems on Oct. 6 for "Microwave networks, waveguides, mixing carts, methods of supplying gas, and gas management systems for radiation therapy machines" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,245, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Varian Medical Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Microwave networks, waveguides, mixing carts, methods of supplying gas, and gas management systems for radiation therapy machines" was invented by Ogy Sabev (San Jose, Calif.), Flavio Poehlmann-Martins (Fremont, Calif.) and Reza Alibazi Behbahani (North Brunswick, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave network for a radiation therapy machine having a microwave source and a linear accelerator, includes a waveguide configured to connect between the microwave source and the linear accelerator. The waveguide contains at least one of a first g...