US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on April 15 for "Linear accelerator assembly including flexible high-voltage connection" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,359, issued on April 15, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Linear accelerator assembly including flexible high-voltage connection" was invented by David T. Blahnik (Round Rock, Texas), Charles T. Carlson (Cedar Park, Texas), Robert B. Vopat (Austin, Texas), Frank Sinclair (Boston), Paul J. Murphy (Reading, Mass.) and Krag R. Senior (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein are directed to a linear accelerator assembly for an ion implanter. In some embodiments, a LINAC may include a coil resonator and a plurality of drift tubes coupled to the coil resonator by a set of flexible leads....