US Patent Issued to DAICO MFG, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on July 15 for "Sintered body for radiation shielding material, radiation shielding material, and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,075, issued on July 15, was assigned to DAICO MFG Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan), UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Ibaraki, Japan) and NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Sintered body for radiation shielding material, radiation shielding material, and method for producing the same" was invented by Hiroaki Kumada (Ibaraki, Japan), Naoyuki Kitamura (Osaka, Japan), Tetsuyuki Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan) and Takeshi Ikeda (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As a sintered body for a radiation shielding material, which can effectively shield mainly low-energy-level neutrons, that is, thermal neutrons and lower, s...