ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,386, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio), Jacksonville University (Blacksburg, Va.), Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc (Jacksonville, Fla.) and The University of Maryland (College Park, Md.).

"Nuclear reactor core with rotating fuel modules and related systems" was invented by Carol Smidts (Columbus, Ohio), Alireza Haghighat (Arlington, Va.), Tunc Aldemir (Columbus, Ohio), Fatih Aydogan (Jacksonville, Fla.), Marat Khafizov (Columbus, Ohio), John Horack (Columbus, Ohio), Lei Raymond Cao (Columbus, Ohio), Ji-Cheng Zhao (College Park, Md.) and Valerio Mascolino (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S...