US Patent Issued to Texas Thorium on Sept. 9 for "Methods of energy generation from a Thorium molten salt system" (Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,677, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Texas Thorium LLC (Houston).

"Methods of energy generation from a Thorium molten salt system" was invented by Holloway H Frost (Houston), Rodolfo Vaghetto (Miami), Yassin A Hassan (College Station, Texas), Lin Shao (College Station, Texas) and Trevor D Parker (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating power using a Thorium-containing molten salt fuel is disclosed. One example includes the steps of providing a vessel containing a molten salt fuel, generating a proton beam externally to the vessel, where the externally generated proton beam being of an energy l...