ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,047, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Sensitive detection of low doses of beta particles using quartz crystal oscillators" was invented by Abdullah Nasser Alodhayb (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Nadyah Layeh Alanazi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Hamad Albrithen (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Saad Abdulaziz Dawood (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Muthumare Eswaran Muthu Ramamoorthy (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Khaled Zouher Shamma (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Saja Hamed Alshereef (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining beta radiation intensity based on calculated resonance frequency and c...