Patents by Inventor Stanley Rosenthal
Stanley Rosenthal has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9706636Abstract: An example particle accelerator includes a coil to provide a magnetic field to a cavity; a particle source to provide a plasma column to the cavity; a voltage source to provide a radio frequency (RF) voltage to the cavity to accelerate particles from the plasma column, where the magnetic field causes particles accelerated from the plasma column to move orbitally within the cavity; an enclosure containing an extraction channel to receive the particles accelerated from the plasma column and to output the received particles from the cavity; and a structure arranged proximate to the extraction channel to change an energy level of the received particles.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gerrit Townsend Zwart, Kenneth P. Gall, Jan Van der Laan, Stanley Rosenthal, Michael Busky, Charles D. O'Neal, III, Ken Yoshiki Franzen
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Patent number: 9681531Abstract: An example particle therapy system includes a particle accelerator to output a particle beam, where the particle accelerator includes: a particle source to provide pulses of ionized plasma to a cavity, where each pulse of the particle source has a pulse width corresponding to a duration of operation of the particle source to produce the corresponding pulse, and where the particle beam is based on the pulses of ionized plasma; and a modulator wheel having different thicknesses, where each thickness extends across a different circumferential length of the modulator wheel, and where the modulator wheel is arranged to receive a precursor to the particle beam and is configured to create a spread-out Bragg peak for the particle beam.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth P. Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Thomas C. Sobczynski, Adam C. Molzahn
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Patent number: 9545528Abstract: An example particle therapy system includes the following: a gantry that is rotatable relative to a patient position; a particle accelerator mounted to the gantry, where the particle accelerator is for outputting a particle beam essentially directly to the patient position; and a control system to receive a prescription and to generate machine instructions for configuring one or more operational characteristics of the particle therapy system. At least one of the operational characteristics relates to a rotational angle of the gantry relative to the patient position.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth P. Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Thomas C. Sobczynski, Adam C. Molzahn, Charles D. O'Neal, III, James Cooley
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Patent number: 9452301Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth P. Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon D. Row, Michael J. Ahearn
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Publication number: 20160205760Abstract: An example particle accelerator includes a coil to provide a magnetic field to a cavity; a particle source to provide a plasma column to the cavity; a voltage source to provide a radio frequency (RF) voltage to the cavity to accelerate particles from the plasma column, where the magnetic field causes particles accelerated from the plasma column to move orbitally within the cavity; an enclosure containing an extraction channel to receive the particles accelerated from the plasma column and to output the received particles from the cavity; and a structure arranged proximate to the extraction channel to change an energy level of the received particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Gerrit Townsend Zwart, Kenneth P. Gall, Jan Van der Laan, Stanley Rosenthal, Michael Busky, Charles D. O'Neal, III, Ken Yoshiki Franzen
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Patent number: 9301384Abstract: An example particle accelerator includes a coil to provide a magnetic field to a cavity; a particle source to provide a plasma column to the cavity; a voltage source to provide a radio frequency (RF) voltage to the cavity to accelerate particles from the plasma column, where the magnetic field causes particles accelerated from the plasma column to move orbitally within the cavity; an enclosure containing an extraction channel to receive the particles accelerated from the plasma column and to output the received particles from the cavity; and a structure arranged proximate to the extraction channel to change an energy level of the received particles.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gerrit Townsend Zwart, Kenneth P. Gall, Jan Van der Laan, Stanley Rosenthal, Michael Busky, Charles D O'Neal, III, Ken Yoshiki Franzen
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Patent number: 9192042Abstract: An example particle therapy system includes a particle accelerator to output a particle beam, where the particle accelerator includes: a particle source to provide pulses of ionized plasma to a cavity, where each pulse of the particle source has a pulse width corresponding to a duration of operation of the particle source to produce the corresponding pulse, and where the particle beam is based on the pulses of ionized plasma; and a modulator wheel having different thicknesses, where each thickness extends across a different circumferential length of the modulator wheel, and where the modulator wheel is arranged to receive a precursor to the particle beam and is configured to create a spread-out Bragg peak for the particle beam.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth P. Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Thomas C. Sobczynski, Adam C. Molzahn
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Publication number: 20150148584Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: Kenneth P. Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon D. Row, Michael J. Ahearn
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Patent number: 8916843Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn
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Patent number: 8907311Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes a robotic arm capable of directing an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn
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Publication number: 20140094643Abstract: An example particle therapy system includes the following: a gantry that is rotatable relative to a patient position; a particle accelerator mounted to the gantry, where the particle accelerator is for outputting a particle beam essentially directly to the patient position; and a control system to receive a prescription and to generate machine instructions for configuring one or more operational characteristics of the particle therapy system. At least one of the operational characteristics relates to a rotational angle of the gantry relative to the patient position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth P. Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Thomas C. Sobczynski, Adam C. Molzahn, Charles D. O'Neal, III, James Cooley
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Publication number: 20140094639Abstract: An example particle accelerator includes a coil to provide a magnetic field to a cavity; a particle source to provide a plasma column to the cavity; a voltage source to provide a radio frequency (RF) voltage to the cavity to accelerate particles from the plasma column, where the magnetic field causes particles accelerated from the plasma column to move orbitally within the cavity; an enclosure containing an extraction channel to receive the particles accelerated from the plasma column and to output the received particles from the cavity; and a structure arranged proximate to the extraction channel to change an energy level of the received particles.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gerrit Townsend Zwart, Kenneth P. Gall, Jan Van der Laan, Stanley Rosenthal, Michael Busky, Charles D O'Neal, III, Ken Yoshiki Franzen
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Publication number: 20140091734Abstract: An example particle therapy system includes a particle accelerator to output a particle beam, where the particle accelerator includes: a particle source to provide pulses of ionized plasma to a cavity, where each pulse of the particle source has a pulse width corresponding to a duration of operation of the particle source to produce the corresponding pulse, and where the particle beam is based on the pulses of ionized plasma; and a modulator wheel having different thicknesses, where each thickness extends across a different circumferential length of the modulator wheel, and where the modulator wheel is arranged to receive a precursor to the particle beam and is configured to create a spread-out Bragg peak for the particle beamType: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth P. Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Thomas C. Sobczynski, Adam C. Molzahn
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Publication number: 20130053616Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn
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Patent number: 8344340Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Mevion Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn
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Publication number: 20120126140Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes a robotic arm capable of directing an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2011Publication date: May 24, 2012Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn
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Publication number: 20090200483Abstract: A system includes a patient support and an outer gantry on which an accelerator is mounted to enable the accelerator to move through a range of positions around a patient on the patient support. The accelerator is configured to produce a proton or ion beam having an energy level sufficient to reach a target in the patient. An inner gantry includes an aperture for directing the proton or ion beam towards the target.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2008Publication date: August 13, 2009Inventors: Kenneth Gall, Stanley Rosenthal, Gordon Row, Michael Ahearn