US Patent Issued to Gold Standard Radiation Detection on May 13 for "Radiation powered high dose rate and high dose radiation sensor" (New Mexico Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,188, issued on May 13, was assigned to Gold Standard Radiation Detection Inc. (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Radiation powered high dose rate and high dose radiation sensor" was invented by Mark Derzon (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides apparatuses comprising a plurality of junctions providing a Seebeck effect, configured as alternating hot and cold junctions. The apparatus can be configured such that the cold junctions exhibit a different thermal behavior than the hot junctions in response to incident radiation. The junctions can be connected in series, such that the sum of the Seebeck effect fro...