US Patent Issued to RIGAKU on June 30 for "Radiation detector, radiation measuring apparatus, and method for setting radiation detector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,621, issued on June 30, was assigned to RIGAKU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radiation detector, radiation measuring apparatus, and method for setting radiation detector" was invented by Kunitoshi Yanagihara (Akishima, Japan), Tomonao Inoue (Akishima, Japan), Yasutaka Sakuma (Akishima, Japan), Yasukazu Nakaye (Akishima, Japan) and Takuto Sakumura (Akishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detector that suppress a double count which occurs by detecting a single pulse duplicately with a plurality of counters in counter switching, and can acquire highly accurate data, is configured to detect radiation in continuous exposure, comprise...