US Patent Issued to Cintilight on Jan. 13 for "Lateral crystal photodiode readouts and switched diode networks for processing nuclear events" (Tennessee, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,786, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cintilight LLC (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Lateral crystal photodiode readouts and switched diode networks for processing nuclear events" was invented by Chad E. Seaver (Knoxville, Tenn.), Philipp Braeuninger-Weimer (Seattle) and Ronald Grazioso (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positron emission tomography (PET) scanner may include a plurality of gamma radiation detector modules arranged to form a detector ring. Each detector module may include an array of elongated scintillation crystals. With respect to the detector ring, each elongated scintillation crystal includes a proximal end-...