ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,529, issued on April 7, was assigned to NuScale Power LLC (Corvallis, Ore.).
"Nuclear reactor protection systems and methods" was invented by Gregory Wayne Clarkson (Waverly, Kan.), Rufino Ayala (Corvallis, Ore.) and Jason Pottorf (Lebanon, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear reactor protection system includes a plurality of functionally independent modules, each of the modules configured to receive a plurality of inputs from a nuclear reactor safety system, and logically determine a safety action based at least in part on the plurality of inputs, each of the functionally independent modules comprising a digital module or a...