ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,412, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SHINE Technologies LLC (Janesville, Wis.).

"Systems and methods employing interchangeable ion beam targets" was invented by Lucas Jacobson (Madison, Wis.), Tye Gribb (Madison, Wis.), Ross Radel (Madison, Wis.), Evan Sengbusch (Madison, Wis.), Preston Barrows (Madison, Wis.) and Eli Moll (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for generating a plurality of different monoenergetic neutron energies using a plurality of interchangeable ion beam targets. In certain embodiments, each of the plurality of ion beam targets is configured to generate a monoene...