ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,669, issued on April 29, was assigned to NuFlare Technology Inc. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Method and apparatus for detecting discharge site" was invented by Toru Ariizumi (Tama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a discharge site for a charged particle beam emitting apparatus includes switchable first and second modes. The first mode enables a beam of charged particles to be deflected by applying voltages to electrodes. The second mode enables acquisition of data items indicative of potential of each of the electrodes while the beam is being emitted without applying the voltages. The method includes, in the second ...