US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on July 15 for "Superconductive electromagnet, particle accelerator, and particle beam therapy apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,845, issued on July 15, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Superconductive electromagnet, particle accelerator, and particle beam therapy apparatus" was invented by Yuta Ebara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jyun Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a case where a start current value is higher than a target current value, a control unit performs a control to lower a current value from the start current value to the target current value. In addition, in a case where the start current value is equal to or lower than the target current value, the control unit controls to raise the current value from the...