US Patent Issued to NUSCALE POWER, PARAGON ENERGY SOLUTIONS on July 29 for "Nuclear reactor protection systems and methods" (Oregon, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,467, issued on July 29, was assigned to NUSCALE POWER LLC (Corvallis, Ore.) and PARAGON ENERGY SOLUTIONS LLC (Fort Worth, Texas).

"Nuclear reactor protection systems and methods" was invented by Gregory Wayne Clarkson (Waverly, Kan.), Rufino Ayala (Corvallis, Ore.) and Jason Pottorf (Lebanon, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear reactor protection system includes a plurality of functionally independent modules, each of the modules configured to receive a plurality of inputs from a nuclear reactor safety system, and logically determine a safety action based at least in part on the plurality of inputs; and one or more nuclear ...