ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,196, issued on July 14, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENTAL FOUNDATION Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Methods and apparatuses for enhancing scintillation with optical nanostructures for scintillators, LEDs, and laser sources" was invented by John Joannopoulos (Belmont, Mass.), Steven Johnson (Arlington, Mass.), Marin Soljacic (Belmont, Mass.), Steven Kooi (Lexington, Mass.), Justin Beroz (Cambridge, Mass.), Ido Kaminer (Haifa, Israel), Nicholas Rivera (Somerville, Mass.), Yi Yang (Cambridge, Mass.), Charles Roques-Carmes (Cambridge, Mass.), Ali Ghorashi (Boston), Zin Lin (Boston) and Nicolas Romeo (Somerville, Mass...