US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security, Opcondys on Sept. 16 for "Flash radiotherapy accelerator system" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,092, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.) and Opcondys Inc. (Manteca, Calif.).

"Flash radiotherapy accelerator system" was invented by Stephen E. Sampayan (Manteca, Calif.), George James Caporaso (East Quogue, N.Y.), Yu-Jiuan Chen (Fremont, Calif.) and Kristin Cortella Sampayan (Manteca, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices and systems for ultra-high dose radiotherapy are disclosed. The described techniques rely in-part on active switching control of a photoconductive switch during the time the accelerator is accelerating charged particles to produce the o...