US Patent Issued to RIKEN on Dec. 2 for "Concentration detection device and concentration detection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,198, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to RIKEN (Wako, Japan).

"Concentration detection device and concentration detection method" was invented by Yasuo Wakabayashi (Wako, Japan), Yoshie Otake (Wako, Japan) and Yujiro Ikeda (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A concentration detector includes: a neutron source emitting neutrons to a target; a gamma ray detector detecting and determining an amount of specific gamma rays that are among gamma rays generated in the target by interactions with the neutrons; and a concentration calculator calculating a concentration of the target at selected depths in the inspection target, based on th...