US Patent Issued to Thomas Jefferson University, Cukurova University on March 11 for "Doped BeO compounds for optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and thermoluminescence (TL) radiation dosimetry" (Turkish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,151, issued on March 11, was assigned to Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia) and Cukurova University (Turkey).

"Doped BeO compounds for optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and thermoluminescence (TL) radiation dosimetry" was invented by Zehra Yegingil (Adana, Turkey), Enver Bulur (Ankara, Turkey), Volkan Altunal (Adana, Turkey), Yan Yu (Philadelphia), Veysi Guckan (Adana, Turkey) and Adam Dicker (Merion Station, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates generally in part to BeO-based compounds that are capable of storing at least part of the energy of incident ionizing radiation and releasing at lea...