ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,631, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TAE Technologies Inc. (Foothill Ranch, Canada).
"Ion beam exclusion paths on the target surface to optimize neutron beam performance" was invented by Alexander Dunaevsky (Corona, Calif.), Gregory Luke Snitchler (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Harrison Beam Eggers (Pendleton, S.C.), Jedediah Styron (Wildomar, Calif.) and Charles Leon Lee (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems, devices, and methods relate to exclusion of ion beam paths on the target surface to optimize neutron beam performance. A particle beam is directed along an axis so that the particle beam is incident ...