US Patent Issued to Radiation Monitoring Devices on July 1 for "Thallium-based scintillator materials" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,786, issued on July 1, was assigned to Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc. (Watertown, Mass.).

"Thallium-based scintillator materials" was invented by Rastgo Hawrami (Watertown, Mass.), Lakshmi Soundara Pandian (Arlington, Mass.) and Kanai S. Shah (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scintillator materials, as well as related systems, and methods of detection using the same, are described herein. The scintillator material composition may comprise a Tl-based scintillator material. For example, the composition may comprise a thallium-based halide. Such materials have been shown to have particularly attractive scintillation pro...