US Patent Issued to Rapiscan Holdings on March 25 for "Targeted collimation of detectors using rear collimators" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,341, issued on March 25, was assigned to Rapiscan Holdings Inc. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Targeted collimation of detectors using rear collimators" was invented by James Ollier (Huyton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector arrangement including a plurality of detector elements enclosed in a housing, wherein the housing has first, second, third and fourth sides, wherein the first side faces a radiation source and the second side is opposite to the first side, and wherein each of the plurality of detector elements points substantially towards the radiation source; and a plurality of collimators, wherein each of the plur...