ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,417, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ATOMIC ENERGY OF CANADA Ltd./ENERGIE ATOMIQUE DU CANADA LIMITEE (Chalk River, Canada).
"Hydrogen fusible link" was invented by Yu-Shan Chin (Deep River, Canada), Anthony Clouthier (Arnprior, Canada), Zhe Liang (Deep River, Canada), Lee Gardner (Pembroke, Canada) and Joshua Murphy (Deep River, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogen fusible link may include a first link member having a thermally conductive material, and reaction region and a bonding region. A bonding material may be in a solid state at an operating temperature and may have a melting temperature that is greater than th...