US Patent Issued to FRAMATOME on Sept. 8 for "Platform and platform system for nuclear power plant" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,701, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FRAMATOME (Courbevoie, France).

"Platform and platform system for nuclear power plant" was invented by Lionel Le Gall (Villeurbanne, France), Jeremy Reis (Beynost, France), Christophe Jankowiak (Aix en Provence, France) and Jaafar Majd (Marseilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform for a nuclear power plant is configured to span a pool (4) of a nuclear power plant by being movable along two parallel rails (6) arranged on either side of the pool (4). The platform comprises at least one platform module (16) having a module floor (18) defining at least part of a platform floor (14) ...