ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,206, issued on May 20, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Three layer resonator coil for linear accelerator" was invented by William Herron Park Jr. (Marblehead, Mass.), Charles T. Carlson (Cedar Park, Texas) and Luke Bonecutter (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion implantation system including an ion source for generating an ion beam, an end station for holding a substrate to be implanted by the ion beam, and a linear accelerator disposed between the ion source and the end station and adapted to accelerate the ion beam, the linear accelerator including at least one acceleration stage i...