ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,262, issued on July 15, was assigned to THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (Albany, N.Y.).

"System and method for power-efficient multiplexing for high resolution time-of-flight positron emission tomography modules with intercrystal light sharing" was invented by Andrew Labella (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Amirhossein Goldan (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Eric Petersen (Stony Brook, N.Y.) and Wei Zhao (Stony Brook, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplexing scheme for both energy and timing information is provided for a particle detection system having an optical sensor array with multiple optical sensors. Each optica...