US Patent Issued to TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY on Nov. 25 for "Heat pipe reactors with arbitrary heat exchangers" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,574, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).

"Heat pipe reactors with arbitrary heat exchangers" was invented by Robert Stowers Reid (Santa Fe, N.M.), Tana Cardenas (Santa Fe, N.M.) and Patrick Ray McClure (Los Alamos, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pipe reactor may include a heat pipe array with a reactor core at any distance along the length of the heat pipe array. Heat exchangers may be placed on both sides of reactor core. The heat pipe array may also be attached to one or more decay or similar heat exchangers placed near one or both sides of the reactor core, allowing heat r...