ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,977, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Hefei, China).

"Method for measuring beam divergence angle of high-current particle beam based on one- dimensional carbon fiber composite material" was invented by YongJian Xu (Anhui, China), Yue Hu (Anhui, China), Ling Yu (Anhui, China), ChunDong Hu (Anhui, China) and YuanLai Xie (Anhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method for measuring a beam divergence angle of a high-current particle beam based on a one-dimensional carbon fiber composite material, relating to the field of high-curr...