US Patent Issued to Neutron Therapeutics on Nov. 25 for "Compact motor-driven insulated electrostatic particle accelerator" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,140, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Neutron Therapeutics LLC (Danvers, Mass.).

"Compact motor-driven insulated electrostatic particle accelerator" was invented by William H. Park Jr. (Marblehead, Mass.), Theodore H. Smick (Gloucester, Mass.), Geoffrey Ryding (Manchester, Mass.) and Ronald Horner (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, an electrostatic particle accelerator may include an assembly having a motor and support plate; an acceleration tube; one or more stage assemblies each having an alternator coupled to a common drive shaft, a power supply coupled to one of the plurality of ele...