ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,764, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.).

"Prismatoid light guide" was invented by Amirhossein Goldan (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Andrew Labella (New Rochelle, N.Y.), Wei Zhao (East Setauket, N.Y.) and Anthony Lubinsky (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a device for detecting sub-atomic particles and method of fabrication thereof. The device includes a plurality of scintillators, a detector provided on a first end of the plurality of scintillators and a prismatoid provided on a second end of the plurality of scintillators. The p...