ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,572, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).

"Scintillator panel, radiation detector using same, line camera and radiation inspection device, and inline inspection method and inspection method using same" was invented by Sho Miyao (Otsu, Japan), Takahiro Murai (Otsu, Japan), Yasuhiro Kobayashi (Otsu, Japan) and Nobuyasu Fujioka (Otsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a scintillator panel with reduced deterioration in brightness due to irradiation and higher brightness. A scintillator panel including a substrate and a scintillator layer containing phosphors, in which the scintillator layer i...