ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,087, issued on June 3, was assigned to HERON NEUTRON MEDICAL CORP. (Zhubei, Taiwan).

"Beam equipment controlling system and beam equipment controlling method" was invented by Chih-Chung Lin (Zhubei, Taiwan), Siao-Cing Liou (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Shan-Haw Chiou (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beam equipment controlling method is provided. The method includes: proton beam regulatory steps, including: generating a first proton beam after confirming that the generating conditions are met, and marking the proton beam regulatory steps as completed after confirming that the first proton beam meets the specifications; neutron b...