ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,964, issued on March 25, was assigned to Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).
"Detection apparatus" was invented by Jorge V. Carvajal (Irwin, Pa.), Jeffrey L. Arndt (Pittsburgh) and Shawn C. Stafford (Scottdale, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection apparatus includes a resonant electrical circuit supported within an interior of a nuclear fuel rod generates a response pulse in response to an excitation pure and transmits the response pulse through a cladding of the fuel rod to another location within a reactor in which the fuel rod is housed and without any breach in the cladding. A characteristic of the...