US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on June 3 for "Scintillator panel, and radiation detector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,931, issued on June 3, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Scintillator panel, and radiation detector" was invented by Keisuke Goto (Hamamatsu, Japan), Kazuhiro Shirakawa (Hamamatsu, Japan), Hidenori Jonishi (Hamamatsu, Japan), Masashi Hatanaka (Hamamatsu, Japan), Haruki Yamaji (Hamamatsu, Japan), Jun Sakurai (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Yutaka Kusuyama (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scintillator panel includes a substrate made of an organic material, a barrier layer formed on the substrate and including thallium iodide as a main component, and a scintillator layer formed on the barrier layer an...