US Patent Issued to BWXT Advanced Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Using additive manufacturing in creating a nuclear fuel structure with a shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid having a triply periodic minimal surface" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,891, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC (Lynchburg, Va.).

"Using additive manufacturing in creating a nuclear fuel structure with a shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid having a triply periodic minimal surface" was invented by Benjamin D. Fisher (Lynchburg, Va.), John R. Salasin (Lynchburg, Va.), Craig D. Gramlich (Forest, Va.) and Jonathan K. Witter (Forest, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a nuclear fuel segment includes varying a parameter of a lattice structure of a first mathematically-based periodic solid to form a second mathematically-based perio...