US Patent Issued to FRAMATOME on Sept. 8 for "Probabilistic evaluation of fastener degradation in nuclear power plants" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,078, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FRAMATOME Inc..

"Probabilistic evaluation of fastener degradation in nuclear power plants" was invented by Greg Troyer (Lynchburg, Va.), Todd Matthews (Lynchburg, Va.) and Pavan Thallapragada (Lynchburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probabilistic method for determining an operability interval for fasteners in a nuclear power plant assembly includes providing a geometric distribution of a given initial condition of fasteners in the nuclear power plant assembly at an initial time T0; generating a plurality of random future fastener failure patterns by applying a fastener failure probabili...