ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,785, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PROTERIAL LTD. (Tokyo).
"Scintillator structure" was invented by Masanobu Nakahashi (Tokyo), Naohiro Taniguchi (Tokyo), Tamotsu Kibe (Tokyo), Hikaru Chiyo (Tokyo) and Ryota Okamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reliability of a scintillator structure is improved. The scintillator structure includes a plurality of cells and a reflective layer covering the plurality of cells. Here, each of the plurality of cells includes a resin and a phosphor, and the resin has a decrease rate of a total light transmittance that is less than 8% with respect to light having a wavelength of 542 nm after X-...