US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on May 12 for "Silicon photomultipliers embedded in scintillator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,284, issued on May 12, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Silicon photomultipliers embedded in scintillator" was invented by Melinda Dominique Sweany (Oakland, Calif.), Kyle James Weinfurther (Livermore, Calif.), Patrick L. Feng (Livermore, Calif.) and Peter Anthony Marleau (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scintillator having a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) embedded therein is described. The scintillator comprises an amorphous organic glass scintillator (OGS) material having a glass transition temperature above which the OGS material behaves as a supercooled...