US Patent Issued to Elekta on March 4 for "Radiotherapy device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,356, issued on March 4, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Radiotherapy device" was invented by Peter Doherty (Crawley, Great Britain), Emma Wooldridge (Crawley, Great Britain) and Ian Shinton (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particle accelerator comprising a waveguide comprising a series of acceleration cells. The series of acceleration cells comprise an input acceleration cell configured to accelerate a beam of electrons along the central axis of the cells. A source of electrons is configured to input a beam of electrons into the input acceleration cell and a magnet arrangement is configu...