US Patent Issued to TERRAPOWER on Sept. 16 for "Modular manufacture, delivery, and assembly of nuclear reactor core systems" (North Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,175, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TERRAPOWER LLC (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Modular manufacture, delivery, and assembly of nuclear reactor core systems" was invented by Derek Bass (Wilmington, N.C.), Jesse R. Cheatham III (Seattle), Pavel Hejzlar (Kirkland, Wash.), Brian C. Johnson (Issaquah, Wash.), Calen Kaneko (Seattle), Christopher A. Martin (Seattle), Sean T Mosier (Wilmington, N.C.), Philip M. Schloss (Seattle), Nathan Smith (Duvall, Wash.), Mark R. Werner (Bellevue, Wash.) and Nicholas Kandabarow (Hampstead, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear reactor is designed to allow efficient packing of components within the r...