ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,906, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to OXFORD INSTRUMENTS TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Collimator for a radiation detector" was invented by Tomi Meilahti (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a collimator protecting components of a semiconductor radiation detector assembly from excess radiation, including: a first plate defining an opening therethrough, the first plate being made of first material; zero or more intermediate plates each defining an opening therethrough, wherein each intermediate plate is made of respective second material having a higher atomic weight than the first material; a third plate that ...