US Patent Issued to PECSI TUDOMANYEGYETEM on May 6 for "Efficient production of high-energy ultrashort ion-, especially proton bunches" (Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,092, issued on May 6, was assigned to PECSI TUDOMANYEGYETEM (Pecs, Hungary).

"Efficient production of high-energy ultrashort ion-, especially proton bunches" was invented by Gabor Almasi (Kozarmisleny, Hungary), Janos Hebling (Pecs, Hungary), Laszlo Palfalvi (Pecs, Hungary) and Zoltan Tibai (Pecs, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification relates to accelerating electrically charged particles. Gas is introduced into a vacuum chamber through at least one nozzle which opens into said vacuum chamber. Focusing an ionizing beam into the gas generates a plasma having a spatial distribution determined by the duration ...