US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK-NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND on Oct. 27 for "Semiconductor sensor for radiation dosimetry" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,729, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK-NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND (Cork, Ireland).

"Semiconductor sensor for radiation dosimetry" was invented by Russell Duane (Cork, Ireland), Aleksandar Jaksic (Cork, Ireland) and Nikola Vasovic (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a radiation dosimeter with improved sensitivity. The sensor apparatus comprises a semiconductor structure, a means for biasing the semiconductor structure to readout stored charge in its dielectric by exhibiting a sensor current-voltage characteristic which is proportional to the dielectric stored charge...