US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Aug. 25 for "Radiation detector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,049, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Radiation detector" was invented by Hiroyuki Tomiyama (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Tetsuya Taka (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detector includes a positioning member having a through hole through which radiation passes, a scintillator having an input surface to which the radiation passing through the through hole is input and configured to convert the radiation into scintillation light, a sensor unit having a light-receiving surface that receives the scintillation light converted by the scintillator and configured to detect t...