US Patent Issued to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Georgia Tech Research on April 8 for "Scintillating glass ceramics for use in flat panel x-ray detectors, flat panel x-ray detectors and imaging systems" (New York, Georgia, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,958, issued on April 8, was assigned to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, N.Y.), UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Scintillating glass ceramics for use in flat panel x-ray detectors, flat panel x-ray detectors and imaging systems" was invented by Anthony R. Lubinsky (Port Jefferson, N.Y.), Adrian Howansky (Centereach, N.Y.), Jacqueline Johnson (Tullahoma, Tenn.), Meredith Brooke Beckert (Atlanta), Charles Bond (Tullahoma, Tenn.) and Russell Lee Leonard (Tullahoma, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scintillating glass cerami...