US Patent Issued to GE-HITACHI NUCLEAR ENERGY AMERICAS on Oct. 14 for "Piping enhancement for backflow prevention in a multiple loop, metal cooled nuclear reactor system" (North Carolina, Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,513, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GE-HITACHI NUCLEAR ENERGY AMERICAS LLC (Wilmington, N.C.).

"Piping enhancement for backflow prevention in a multiple loop, metal cooled nuclear reactor system" was invented by Eric Paul Loewen (Wilmington, N.C.), Seth Ryan Paul Strege (Wilmington, N.C.), Nicholas Francis O'Neill (Alpharetta, Ga.), Colin Christopher O'Connor (Atlanta), Chelsea Ann Curtin (Atlanta) and Edwin Wu (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sodium-cooled nuclear reactor includes at least one electromagnetic pump assembly and a backflow reduction pipe. The backflow reduction pipe may include an inlet, an outlet, at lea...