US Patent Issued to TerraPower Isotopes on Feb. 3 for "Titania based generators for AC-225 generation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,372, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TerraPower Isotopes LLC (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Titania based generators for AC-225 generation" was invented by Ken Czerwinski (Seattle), Sayandev Chatterjee (Redmond, Wash.), Zuolei Liao (Redmond, Wash.), Pyoungchung Kim (Mill Creek, Wash.), Vladislav P. Vlasenko (Woodinville, Wash.), Russell C. Ludwig (Seattle) and Christopher P. Dunckley (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, the technology relates to a method of producing Ac, the method including preparing a phosphate-modified titania material to produce an ion-exchange material, contacting a solution including 229Th with the ion-...