ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,495, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Universite Laval (Quebec, Canada).

"Method and system for determining a radiation dose from polarized signals" was invented by Emily Cloutier (Quebec, Canada), Luc Beaulieu (Quebec, Canada) and Louis Archambault (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for determining a radiation dose is provided. The method can include receiving at least one polarized signal from a radio-luminescent element and determining a degree of linear polarization and an angle of linear polarization of the at least one polarized signal based on at least one predetermined polarization transmissi...