US Patent Issued to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS on May 20 for "Movable/replaceable high intensity target and multiple accelerator systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,719, issued on May 20, 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: "Presented systems and methods facilitate efficient and effective generation and delivery of radiation. In one embodiment, a radiation generation component includes a high intensity target that produces Bremsstrahlung radiation in response to impacts by charged particles, wherein the high intensi...