US Patent Issued to Lawrence Livermore National Security on June 23 for "Neutron generation using pyroelectric crystals" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,522, issued on June 23, was assigned to Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Livermore, Calif.).

"Neutron generation using pyroelectric crystals" was invented by Vincent Tang (Dublin, Calif.), Glenn A. Meyer (Danville, Calif.), Steven Falabella (Livermore, Calif.), Gary Guethlein (Livermore, Calif.), Brian Rusnak (Livermore, Calif.), Stephen Sampayan (Manteca, Calif.), Christopher Spadaccini (Oakland, Calif.), Li-Fang Wang (Livermore, Calif.), John Harris (Monterey, Calif.) and Jeff Morse (Westhampton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a neutrons includes triggering a raising or a lowering of a temperat...