US Patent Issued to SiSnap on June 2 for "3D semiconductor detector system" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,000, issued on June 2, was assigned to SiSnap AB (Stockholm).

"3D semiconductor detector system" was invented by Mats Danielsson (Taby, Sweden) and Luca Terenzi (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector system for molecular imaging of a radionuclide comprises a 3D semiconductor detector comprising a plurality of sensor stacks of sensors made of a semiconductor material having an average atomic number Z below 40. A read-out circuitry connected to the pixels is configured to output, for each interaction induced by an incident gamma ray in the detector, a signal representative of a time, a position and an energy of the int...