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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert D. McElroy, Jr., Middletown, CT (US);
Marcel F. Villani, New Britain, CT (US);
Assignee:
Canberra Industries, Inc., Meriden, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 3/00 ;
Abstract
In a preferred embodiment, a method of enhancing the neutron coincidence assay of low fissile mass samples, by combining assay precision improvement algorithms with novel background and matrix correction algorithms, to provide lower levels of detection with higher confidence that the reported results are not subject to biases resulting from environmental or sample matrix effects.