US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on Nov. 11 for "Scintillator material, radiation detector, and method for producing scintillator material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,997, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Scintillator material, radiation detector, and method for producing scintillator material" was invented by Kiminori Enomoto (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hisayoshi Daicho (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a scintillator material that is excited by radiation rays to emit visible light. The scintillator material has a cristobalite structure obtained by crystallizing a part of silica. A fluorescent material SrI2:Eu2+ is incorporated into the cristobalite structure to form a nanocomposite, and the cristobalite structure contains an alkali met...