US Patent Issued to Actis IP Holdings on Feb. 17 for "Compensated dual element detector for measuring the distance to a radio-labelled source" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,025, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Actis IP Holdings LLC (Powell, Ohio).

"Compensated dual element detector for measuring the distance to a radio-labelled source" was invented by Gregg J. Chapman (Plain City, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument and software methodology to detect a radioactive source and incorporates the following: 1) two radiation detectors in a co-axial configuration, housed in a handheld probe, and 2) a gamma detection control unit executing software algorithms to limit the functional field of view to the front aspect of the probe, vary the depth and width of the field of view to provide collimat...