ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,537, issued on April 8, was assigned to Beam Alpha Inc. (West Chicago, Ill.).
"Ion source" was invented by Gerald Peter Jackson (Lisle, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine, article, process of using, process of making, products produced thereby and necessary intermediates. Illustratively, there can be a process that includes: ionizing at least some injected gas to form ions; confining, without using magnetic fields, at least some of said ions to produce confined ions; accumulating at least some of said confined ions to produce accumulated ions; cooling at least some of said accumulated ions to produce cooled ions; compressi...