US Patent Issued to TAE Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Ion beam paths on target surfaces for neutron beam generation" (California, South Carolina, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,219, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TAE Technologies Inc. (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

"Ion beam paths on target surfaces for neutron beam generation" was invented by Gregory Luke Snitchler (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Shahyar Ziaei (Ladera Ranch, Calif.), Harrison Beam Eggers (Pendleton, S.C.) and Alejandro Mesa Dame (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems, devices, and methods relate to selecting a raster profile for scanning a proton beam across a target. A raster profile is selected from among the plurality of plurality of possible raster profiles based on a value of a figure of merit. A beam is directe...