ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,258, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to BOYA ADVANCED MATERIALS Co. LTD. (Meishan, China).

"Methods and devices for growing scintillation crystals with multi-component garnet structure" was invented by Yu Wang (Meishan, China), Weiming Guan (Meishan, China) and Min Li (Meishan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for growing scintillation crystals with multi-component garnet structure. According to the method, through weight compensating for reactants, introducing a flowing gas, adopting a new temperature field device, and optimizing process parameters, problems such as component deviation ...