ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,904, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CAPESYM INC. (Natick, Mass.).
"Micro-structured crystalline radiation detectors" was invented by Amlan Datta (Ashland, Mass.), Shariar Motakef (Weston, Mass.) and John Fiala (Natick, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a radiation detector is disclosed, which includes a substrate having a plurality of microcapillary channels, and a crystalline scintillator material disposed in said channels so as to generate a plurality of independent radiation sensing elements associated with each channel for detecting incident radiation and generating an optical radiation in response to the de...