US Patent Issued to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS on June 24 for "Movable/replaceable high intensity target and multiple accelerator systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,194, issued on June 24, was assigned to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Movable/replaceable high intensity target and multiple accelerator systems and methods" was invented by Flavio Poehlmann-Martins (Fremont, Calif.), William Thompson Main (Mariposa, Calif.) and Amir Shojaei (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation system includes a patient station including a plurality of accelerator systems and a microwave generation system configured to generate microwaves for the plurality of accelerators. The plurality of accelerators are configured to provide substantially simultaneous multiple radiation...