ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,907, issued on July 8, was assigned to QSA Global Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example radiographic source exposure device includes: a housing; a radiographic source capsule within the housing, the radiographic source capsule having a radionuclide; a shield within the housing and configured to shield the radiographic source capsule and to permit extension of the radiographic source capsule to expose the radiographic source capsule; one or more sensors coupled to t...