US Patent Issued to Elekta on May 27 for "Waveguide for a particle accelerator" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,405, issued on May 27, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"Waveguide for a particle accelerator" was invented by Ian Shinton (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a waveguide cell having a helical cavity. The waveguide cell has a central axis and a cavity having a transverse cross section whose rotational position about the central axis varies along the central axis. There is also disclosed a method a determining the shape of a waveguide cell."

The patent was filed on April 30, 2021, under Application No. 17/997,714.

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