US Patent Issued to Beam Alpha on Oct. 6 for "Sulfur blanket" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,853, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Beam Alpha Inc. (West Chicago, Ill.).

"Sulfur blanket" was invented by Gerald Peter Jackson (Lisle, Ill.) and Joseph Matthew Zlotnicki (Downers Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine, article, process of using, process of making, products produced thereby and necessary intermediates. Illustratively, there can be a process of producing electrical power, the process comprising: creating neutrons via nuclear reactions, said neutrons carrying neutron kinetic energy; moderating said neutrons to thermal energies to produce moderated neutrons, converting the neutron kinetic energy into hea...