US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, National Technology &Engineering Solutions of Sandia on Jan. 27 for "Single light photon counting radiation detector and data transmission methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,604, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and National Technology &Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Single light photon counting radiation detector and data transmission methods" was invented by Joshua W. Cates (San Francisco), Woon-Seng Choong (Oakland, Calif.) and Erik Brubaker (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single photon radiation detector is designed for a particular radiation source fluence, such that an incident radiation photon strikes a scintillator monolith, creating scintillation photons, which are amplified by appropriat...