ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,222, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Driver for a particle accelerator" was invented by Roman Walczak (Oxford, Great Britain), Oscar Jakobsson (Oxford, Great Britain) and Simon Hooker (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver (1) for a plasma particle accelerator includes a plasma (10) and laser system(s) (2) that generate first and second pulses. The first pulse (4) has a duration less than the electron plasma period. The second pulse (6) is temporally smooth and has a duration greater than the electron plasma period and less than the ion plasma per...