US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation, UT-Battelle on March 11 for "Optical fiber-based gamma calorimeter (OFBGC)" (Ohio, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,937, issued on March 11, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio) and UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Optical fiber-based gamma calorimeter (OFBGC)" was invented by Thomas E. Blue (Columbus, Ohio), Anthony Birri (Columbus, Ohio) and Christian M. Petrie (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical fiber-based gamma-ray calorimeter (OFBGC) sensor array which uses a thermal mass with a low thermal conductivity is provided. Advantages of the OFBGC sensor array include: 1) the number of sensors in the OFBGC sensor array is adjustable and limited only by the spatial resolution of the OFBGC sens...