US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Nov. 11 for "Molten salt sampling system and methods of use thereof" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,831, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Molten salt sampling system and methods of use thereof" was invented by Steven R. Biegalski (Atlanta) and Peter William Sobel (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The salt sampling system may be utilized to collect molten fuel salt samples from a molten salt reactor. The salt sampling system keeps the fuel salt isolated from the environment outside the molten salt reactor system, until the salt sampling system is utilized to collect the salt sample. The salt sampling system may utilize one or more isolation components to position a collection assembly ...