US Patent Issued to Hitachi GE Vernova Nuclear Energy on March 3 for "Electrical penetration" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,507, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hitachi GE Vernova Nuclear Energy Ltd. (Hitachi, Japan).

"Electrical penetration" was invented by Shingo Ito (Hitachi, Japan), Yasuyuki Goto (Hitachi, Japan), Yukiharu Sato (Hitachi, Japan), Teppei Kubota (Hitachi, Japan), Masayuki Shimizu (Tokyo), Susumu Kumagai (Tokyo), Atsushi Warigaya (Tokyo), Masamichi Idonuma (Tokyo) and Kenta Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an electrical penetration capable of being used in nuclear power plants which are designed assuming operation under conditions of the severe accident. An electrical penetration includes: a tubular sleeve member...