US Patent Issued to QSA GLOBAL on July 29 for "Methods and apparatus for radiographic source exposure" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,481, issued on July 29, was assigned to QSA GLOBAL INC. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatus for radiographic source exposure" was invented by Paul Benson (Waltham, Mass.), Joseph Ryan Lapinskas (Windham, N.H.) and David Wood (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed example radiographic source exposure devices include: a radiographic source capsule having a radionuclide; a radiographic shield; a channel within the radiographic shield, the channel having a first end and a second end; and a replaceable tube configured to guide a radiographic source capsule between a stored position and an exposed position in whic...