ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,000, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ELVE INC. (Davis, Calif.).

"Magneto-electrostatic sensing, focusing, and steering of electron beams in vacuum electron devices" was invented by Diana Gamzina Daugherty (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vacuum electron devices (VEDs) are produced having a plurality of two-dimensional layers of various materials that are bonded together to form one or more VEDs simultaneously. The two-dimensional material layers are machined to include features needed for device operation so that when assembled and bonded into a three-dimensional structure, three-dimensional features are formed. The two...