US Patent Issued to SHINE Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Isothermal ion source with auxiliary heaters" (Wisconsin, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,001, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SHINE Technologies LLC (Janesville, Wis.).

"Isothermal ion source with auxiliary heaters" was invented by Daniel Martin (Janesville, Wis.), Joseph Sherman (Santa Fe, N.M.) and Sarko Cherekdjian (Janesville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion source includes a chamber having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, a first wall extending from the first end to the second end, and a second wall opposite the first wall. The ion source also includes a source filament at the first end of the chamber and configured to emit electrons and a first amount of heat, a beam aperture at the sec...