US Patent Issued to SHINE Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Device and method for producing medical isotopes" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,676, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SHINE Technologies LLC (Janesville, Wis.).

"Device and method for producing medical isotopes" was invented by Gregory Piefer (Janesville, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid nuclear reactor that is operable to produce a medical isotope includes an ion source operable to produce an ion beam from a gas, a target chamber including a target that interacts with the ion beam to produce neutrons, and an activation cell positioned proximate the target chamber and including a parent material that interacts with the neutrons to produce the medical isotope via a fission reaction. An attenuator i...