US Patent Issued to Elekta on Sept. 9 for "RF source protection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,221, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Elekta Ltd. (Crawley, Great Britain).

"RF source protection" was invented by Ian Shinton (Crawley, Great Britain), Peter Doherty (Crawley, Great Britain) and Emma Wooldridge (Crawley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a design of a transmission waveguide, the method comprising: providing a system comprising a transmission waveguide connected at a first end thereof to an RF source; generating an electromagnetic field in the system by application of RF energy of a harmonic frequency of the RF source to the transmission waveguide; determining whether a reference...