US Patent Issued to PROTERIAL on July 22 for "Scintillator structure and method of evaluating scintillator" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,671, issued on July 22, was assigned to PROTERIAL LTD. (Tokyo).

"Scintillator structure and method of evaluating scintillator" was invented by Shunsuke Goto (Tokyo), Satoshi Shiota (Tokyo) and Shinsuke Terazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scintillator structure includes a scintillator and a reflecting material that covers the scintillator. Here, the scintillator includes a resin and a phosphor, and a phosphor particle perimeter indicating a normalized length of an interface between the phosphor and the resin in a cross-sectional image of the scintillator is smaller than 6.25."

The patent was filed on Nov. 22, 2022, under...