ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,115, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PROTO PATENTS LTD. (LaSalle, Canada).

"Transmission X-ray diffraction apparatus and related method" was invented by Vedran Nicholas Vukotic (LaSalle, Canada), Stanislav Veinberg (LaSalle, Canada), Alec Iskra (LaSalle, Canada), Mohammed Belassel (LaSalle, Canada), Matt Williams (LaSalle, Canada), Maxime Le Ster (LaSalle, Canada), Anton Dmitrienko (LaSalle, Canada) and Michael Brauss (LaSalle, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a transmission X-ray diffraction (XRD) apparatus, the transmission XRD apparatus including an X-ray source for generating a direct X-ray beam; sample ho...