ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,577, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA (Hefei, China).

"Gas detector fabrication method, gas detector, and ray detection device" was invented by Zhiyong Zhang (Anhui, China), Changqing Feng (Anhui, China), Sicheng Wen (Anhui, China), Jianbei Liu (Anhui, China), Ming Shao (Anhui, China) and Yi Zhou (Anhui, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas detector fabrication method is provided. The method includes: fabricating a signal readout plate: fabricating metal readout electrodes on an upper end surface of a lower insulating layer, and covering upper end surfaces of the metal readout e...