Charles Gentile of Plainsboro led a group of nuclear detection system inventors at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) who have received a 2008 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award. They developed the Miniature Integrated Nuclear Detection System (MINDS), and received the honors from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey during a November 6 dinner in Basking Ridge.##M:[more]##
The award notes the team’s invention and patent of MINDS. The team focused on the anti-terrorism device with applications in transportation and site security. MINDS can be used to scan moving vehicles, luggage, cargo vessels, and the like for specific nuclear signatures associated with materials employed in radiological weapons.
