US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY, ANSEEN on July 15 for "Radiation image sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,258, issued on July 15, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY (Japan) and ANSEEN INC. (Japan).

"Radiation image sensor" was invented by Toru Aoki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Katsuyuki Takagi (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Akifumi Koike (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detector includes a charge generation part configured to generate charge corresponding to energy of an incident radiation, a preamplification part configured to output an analog signal corresponding to the charge, a signal conversion part configured to receive the analog signal and output a digital signal being the analog signal...