ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,932, issued on June 3, was assigned to KETEK GmbH Halbleiter-und Reinraumtechnik (Munich).

"X-ray radiation detector having a semiconductor body, an electrically conductive window layer, and an electrically conductive bar structure, and operation method" was invented by Florian Wiest (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a radiation detector includes a semiconductor body configured to detect X-rays having a radiation entrance side, an electrically conductive window layer areally arranged to the radiation entrance side, the window layer having boron and/or carbon and having a thickness of at most 20 nm and an electric...