US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on Oct. 7 for "Tritium detection devices and methods of making and use thereof" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,705, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Tritium detection devices and methods of making and use thereof" was invented by Lei Raymond Cao (Columbus, Ohio) and Praneeth Kandlakunta (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are tritium detection devices and methods of making and use thereof. For example, disclosed herein are tritium detection devices comprising: a tritium detection region comprising a tritium absorption layer and an anti-diffusion layer; a Schottky contact region comprising a Schottky contact layer; a semiconductor layer, the semiconductor layer bei...