ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,316, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON ELECTRON TUBES & DEVICES Co. LTD. (Otawara, Japan).

"Klystron device" was invented by Satoshi Fujii (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Yoshihisa Okubo (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a klystron device includes a klystron body and a focusing magnetic field device. The klystron body has an electron gun section, a collector section, a plurality of cavity resonators, and a plurality of drift tubes. The cavity resonators have nose sections that face each other in an axial direction and form a gap section that is connected to the drift tubes. At least one of t...