US Patent Issued to Dark Fission Space Systems on Sept. 9 for "Radial in-flow particle bed nuclear rocket engine and method" (California, Virginia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,766, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dark Fission Space Systems Inc. (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

"Radial in-flow particle bed nuclear rocket engine and method" was invented by Gregory George Loboda (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Fred George William Kennedy III (Hillsboro, Va.) and Michael Gordon Jacox (Magnolia, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear engine system includes: a pump configured to pump a propellant; a fuel element including a set of nuclear fuel particles; a moderator configured to surround the fuel element and defining a set of moderator coolant channels configured to cool the moderator; a reflector including ...