US Patent Issued to ROLLS-ROYCE SMR on June 30 for "Internals lifting device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,005, issued on June 30, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE SMR Ltd. (Derby, Great Britain).

"Internals lifting device" was invented by Daniel Robertson (Derby, Great Britain), Euan Sharp (Derby, Great Britain), Gerard Halliday (Derby, Great Britain), Stephen Calvert (Derby, Great Britain) and Matthew Morris (Derby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a lifting and transport device for lifting upper internals from a reactor core of a nuclear power generation system in a deployment location and transporting them to a storage location. The lifting/transport device comprises a device body formed of radio...