US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Nov. 18 for "High density UO 2 and high thermal conductivity UO 2 composites by spark plasma sintering (SPS)" (Florida, Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,016, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"High density UO 2 and high thermal conductivity UO 2 composites by spark plasma sintering (SPS)" was invented by Ghatu Subhash (Gainesville, Fla.), Ronald Howard Baney (Gainesville, Fla.), James S. Tulenko (Gainesville, Fla.), Edward Mckenna III (Portland, Ore.), Lihao Ge (San Jose, Calif.) and Sunghwan Yeo (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for production of a nuclear fuel pellet by spark plasma sintering (SPS), wherein a fuel pellet with more than 80% TD or...