US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Oct. 21 for "Apparatuses and methods for merging ion beams" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,342, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Apparatuses and methods for merging ion beams" was invented by Julia Laskin (Indiana, Ill.), Hang Hu (Indiana, Ill.) and Pei Su (Indiana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion beam lens and methods for combining ion beams are disclosed. Embodiments combine hyperthermal ion beams and can include layered three-dimensional electrodes with passageways through the electrodes, each electrode having a specified DC voltage and each passageway configured for passing an ion beam to an exit, the velocity vectors of the beams being primarily oriented...