US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on March 31 for "X-ray detector and radiographic X-ray apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,878, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama City, Japan).

"X-ray detector and radiographic X-ray apparatus" was invented by Kozo Takahashi (Kameyama City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray detector includes a plurality of scintillators each configured to convert incident X-rays into light and emit the light, a plurality of low refractive layers that are alternately stacked with the plurality of scintillators and that have a refractive index lower than the scintillators, and a photoelectric conversion element array including a plurality of arrayed photoelectric conversion elements eac...