ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,852, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Beam Alpha Inc. (West Chicago, Ill.).
"Ion transport" was invented by Gerald Peter Jackson (Lisle, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Articles of manufacture, machines, processes for using the articles and machines, processes for making the articles and machines, and products produced by the process of making, along with necessary intermediates, directed to the transport of ion beams."
The patent was filed on Jan. 13, 2021, under Application No. 17/148,489.
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