US Patent Issued to Neutron Therapeutics on April 15 for "Overvoltage protection of accelerator components" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,478, issued on April 15, was assigned to Neutron Therapeutics LLC (Danvers, Mass.).

"Overvoltage protection of accelerator components" was invented by Tyler R. Wills (Danvers, Mass.) and William H. Park (Marblehead, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An over-voltage protection system for an accelerator can include: a plurality of DC power supplies configured to provide a plurality of voltage levels up to a desired voltage level; and an acceleration tube electrically connected to the plurality of DC power supplies and configured to accelerate a charged particle. The acceleration tube can include a plurality of stages. Each stage can ...