US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Feb. 10 for "Neutron detectors and methods of fabricating the same using boron as neutron conversion layer and conformal doping source" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,907, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Neutron detectors and methods of fabricating the same using boron as neutron conversion layer and conformal doping source" was invented by Siddartha Srinivasan Nandagopala Krishnan (Plano, Texas), Jesus Alfonso Caraveo Frescas (Richardson, Texas), Carlos Hugo Avila-Avendano (Dallas) and Manuel Quevedo Lopez (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermal neutron detectors and methods of fabricating the same are provided. A thermal neutron detector can use boron in both the neutron conversion layer and as a source for c...