ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,224, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Rapiscan Holdings Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).
"System and method to count neutrons" was invented by Guntram Pausch (Dresden, Germany) and Juergen Stein (Wuppertal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detection system and a method for a parallel detection of gamma-rays and neutrons are provided, comprising a gamma-ray detector comprising a scintillator crystal comprising 127I, a digitizer to generate digitized time series and an analyzer, characterized in that the analyzer is adapted to identify a primary signal component, a first delayed signal component and a second delayed signa...