US Patent Issued to Electricite de France on Feb. 24 for "Process for aiding the detection of migrating bodies within a fuel assembly" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,290, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Electricite de France (France).

"Process for aiding the detection of migrating bodies within a fuel assembly" was invented by Fabien Dory (Cachan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a process for aiding the detection of migrating bodies within a fuel assembly of a nuclear power plant and more particularly on the anti-debris grid of the lower end piece of said assembly, during which at least one camera is controlled in the direction of said assembly and the stream of images recorded by said at least one camera is directed towards a man-machine interface which comprise...