ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,011, issued on March 25, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).
"Accelerator and particle therapy system" was invented by Chishin Hori (Tokyo), Fuutarou Ebina (Tokyo) and Kento Nishida (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disturbance magnetic field region provided in an outer peripheral portion of a main magnetic field region of an accelerator has a peeler region in which a strength of a magnetic field decreases toward an outside, a regenerator region in which the strength of the magnetic field increases toward the outside, and a substantially flat region in which the strength of the magnetic field is larger than the st...