US Patent Issued to KURARAY on April 8 for "Plastic scintillating fiber and its manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,954, issued on April 8, was assigned to KURARAY Co. LTD. (Okayama, Japan).

"Plastic scintillating fiber and its manufacturing method" was invented by Katsuhiro Fujita (Niigata, Japan) and Osamu Shinji (Niigata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plastic scintillating fiber includes an organic compound containing an element with a neutron cross section larger than that of hydrogen, and includes: an outermost peripheral layer containing a plastic material that emits scintillation light when it is irradiated with neutron radiation; a core having a high refractive index, disposed inside the outermost peripheral layer, and containing ...