ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,787, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Job Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Radiation detector and method for producing same" was invented by Shuichiro Yamamoto (Yokohama, Japan) and Masashi Yamasaki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for producing a compact radiation detector 1 including a radiation detection element 2 that detects radiation incident on a top surface, and a semiconductor element 3 that is formed larger than the radiation detection element 2 in plan view, is connected to an undersurface of the radiation detection element 2, processes a signal obtained from the radiation detection element 2, and out...