US Patent Issued to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK on Dec. 23 for "Tapered scintillator crystal modules and methods of using the same" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,550, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, N.Y.).

"Tapered scintillator crystal modules and methods of using the same" was invented by Andrew Labella (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Amirhossein Goldan (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Xinjie Cao (Stony Brook, N.Y.) and Wei Zhao (East Setauket, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tapered scintillator modules and detection devices having tapered scintillator modules in at least the end that contacts an optical sensor where the taper depends on the location of the scintillator module within the active area of the optical sensor is provided. Tap...