US Patent Issued to UT-BATTELLE on Sept. 29 for "TRISO architecture for palladium and silicon carbide interaction mitigation" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,588, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"TRISO architecture for palladium and silicon carbide interaction mitigation" was invented by Tyler J. Gerczak (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), John D. Hunn (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Richard A. Lowden (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A TRISO architecture including an improved buffer layer is provided. The improved buffer layer contains sacrificial silicon in low density carbon to react with palladium released from the kernel and thereby limit the palladium available to react with the existing SiC layer. The introduction of silicon in the buffer layer allows...