US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Oct. 7 for "Neutron ray therapy facility including a neutron ray generating apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,074, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Neutron ray therapy facility including a neutron ray generating apparatus" was invented by Tatsuo Baba (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neutron ray generating apparatus includes: an accelerator that emits a particle beam; a target disposition portion that disposes a target that is irradiated with the particle beam to generate a neutron ray; and a transport path that transports the particle beam between the accelerator and the target disposition portion. The target disposition portion and the accelerator are disposed on a reference line of ...