US Patent Issued to Rigaku on April 14 for "Crystal structure analysis method, crystal structure analysis device, and crystal structure analysis program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,696, issued on April 14, was assigned to Rigaku Corp. (Akishima, Japan).

"Crystal structure analysis method, crystal structure analysis device, and crystal structure analysis program" was invented by Akihito Yamano (Akishima, Japan), Takashi Matsumoto (Akishima, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kanda (Akishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crystal structure analysis in which: each of a plurality of samples are irradiated while the angle of incidence is continuously changed by rotating the crystal, whereby diffraction spot intensity and reliability for a plurality of crystal lattice planes are determined and a data set (Data-1, Data-2, ...