ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,083, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Radiation detector, radiation detector manufacturing method, and scintillator panel unit" was invented by Haruki Yamaji (Hamamatsu, Japan), Jun Sakurai (Hamamatsu, Japan), Kazuhiro Shirakawa (Hamamatsu, Japan), Masashi Hatanaka (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Keisuke Goto (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detector includes a sensor panel having a light receiving surface, a first scintillator panel and a second scintillator panel disposed on the light receiving surface in a state of being adjacent to each other along the light recei...