US Patent Issued to Commonwealth Fusion Systems on Dec. 2 for "Techniques for removing a vacuum vessel from a tokamak and related systems and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,904, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC (Devens, Mass.).

"Techniques for removing a vacuum vessel from a tokamak and related systems and methods" was invented by Matthew Vernacchia (Cambridge, Mass.) and Theodore Wyeth (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for automatically removing and replacing components, including a vacuum vessel, from a tokamak. The inventors have recognized that schemes for automatically removing and replacing components from a tokamak should preferably be simple (e.g., using proven equipment to perform a series of non-mechanically complex tasks)...