US Patent Issued to xLight on May 5 for "Particle accelerator system and method of operation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,923, issued on May 5, was assigned to xLight Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Particle accelerator system and method of operation" was invented by Colwyn Gulliford (Palo Alto, Calif.) and David Douglas (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particle accelerator system, preferably including an injection beamline, a return beamline, and a merged beamline, and optionally including a beam separator. The particle accelerator system preferably includes a plurality of electron optics elements, such as dipole magnets, quadrupole magnets, solenoid elements, and/or higher-order magnetic elements, which can function to direct electrons (an...