US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on Sept. 29 for "Neutron beam monitoring system" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,227, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Neutron beam monitoring system" was invented by Yacouba Diawara (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Vladislav N. Sedov (Knoxville, Tenn.), Loren Lynn Funk (Knoxville, Tenn.), Justin David Beal (Knoxville, Tenn.), Bradley Thomas Bochenek (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Christopher Aaron Montcalm (Harriman, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neutron monitoring system includes an entrance window that enables neutrons to penetrate the system while attenuating some undesired signals and/or radiation. A neutron reactive medium integrated with the entrance window functions as a neutr...