ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,380, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Centre Hospitalier Universi-Taire Vaudois (C.H.U.V.) (Lausanne, Switzerland) and CERN-European Organization For Nuclear Research (Geneva).

"Device for providing a radiation treatment" was invented by Jean Francois Marie Bourhis (Lausanne, Switzerland), Jean-Francois Germond (Chez-le-Bart, Switzerland), Raphael Moeckli (Echichens, Switzerland), Walter Wuensch (Onex, Switzerland) and Alexander Gerbershagen (Meyrin, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present relates to a device for providing a radiation treatment to a patient comprising: -an electron source for providing a beam of electr...