US Patent Issued to Westinghouse Electric on Jan. 20 for "Bottom nozzle with internal debris filter" (South Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,164, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Bottom nozzle with internal debris filter" was invented by Michael E. Conner (Elgin, S.C.), Thanh H. Do (Columbia, S.C.), Caroline K. Duncan (Columbia, S.C.), Robert A. Brewster (Mars, Pa.) and Artem Aleshin (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A debris filter bottom nozzle for a nuclear reactor fuel assembly. The nozzle comprising venturi-shaped flow passages within a plate body. At least one flow passage has a filter therein, with the uppermost and lowermost ends of the filter being situated between the upper and lower ends o...