US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on July 29 for "X-ray scintillators, metal halide hybrids, devices, and methods" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,670, issued on July 29, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"X-ray scintillators, metal halide hybrids, devices, and methods" was invented by Biwu Ma (Tallahassee, Fla.), Liang-Jin Xu (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Qingquan He (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of scintillation, scintillation devices, and metal halide hybrids that may be used as X-ray scintillators. The metal halide hybrids may include organic metal halide hybrids, inorganic metal halide hybrids, or organic-inorganic metal halide hybrids. The metal halide hybrids may have a 0D structure. The metal...