US Patent Issued to HITACHI HIGH-TECH ANALYTICAL SCIENCE FINLAND on Nov. 18 for "Multilayer collimator, and method for manufacturing a multilayer collimator" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,490, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH ANALYTICAL SCIENCE FINLAND OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Multilayer collimator, and method for manufacturing a multilayer collimator" was invented by Jukka Hassi (Espoo, Finland), Vesa Kulkki (Espoo, Finland), Heikki Mikander (Espoo, Finland) and Tuomas Pylkkaenen (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer collimator for a radiation detector comprises a first layer of a first attenuator material and a second layer of a second attenuator material, each having a coincident opening therethrough. The second attenuator material has an atomic mass smaller than that of the f...