ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,792, issued on July 8, was assigned to SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL (Saint-Aubin, France).

"Magnet structure with improved performance, inverter, and associated method" was invented by Mathieu Valleau (Gif-sur-Yvette, France), Amin Ghaith (Dresden, Germany) and Marie-Emmanuelle Couprie (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnet structure including sets of permanent magnets installed periodically in a direction S with a spatial period Lambdau, each set including a magnet of each of a first beam, a second beam, a third beam, and a fourth beam, the magnets of each beam being arranged in succession in the direction S, the first beam and the sec...