ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,396, issued on May 13, was assigned to BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC (Lynchburg, Va.).
"Control rod remote holdout mechanism" was invented by Scott J. Shargots (Forest, Va.), Ryan Z. Ziegler (Forest, Va.) and Emily D. Fleming (Forest, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control rod drive mechanism having a torque tube with an inner surface defining a central bore, a control rod assembly including a connecting rod including a cam extending radially-outwardly therefrom and an annular collar defining a key slot, an elongated key that is slidably receivable within the key slot, and a holdout collar disposed non-rotatably within the tor...