US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Sept. 22 for "Mechanical mitigation of neutron see" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,644, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Mechanical mitigation of neutron see" was invented by Eric N. Anderson (Marion, Iowa), Timothy R. Fannin (Urbana, Iowa), Brent J Nelson (Marion, Iowa) and Matthew P. Corbett (Mount Vernon, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Neutron single effect events are mitigated using gadolinium. Layers of gadolinium are fully encapsulated as part of an airborne electronic hardware, in circuit boards, in heat sinks, and as part of the device packaging. The gadolinium layers are designed to shield semiconductor chips from neutrons. Shielding the semiconductor c...