US Patent Issued to X-Energy on July 1 for "Deposition of ceramic layers using liquid organometallic precursors" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,932, issued on July 1, was assigned to X-Energy LLC (Rockville, Md.).

"Deposition of ceramic layers using liquid organometallic precursors" was invented by Howard Taery Kim (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal or ceramic layer may be deposited on nuclear materials by chemical vapor deposition using a non-halogenated liquid organometallic metal precursor. The chemical vapor deposition is carried out by a method including steps of introducing nuclear fuel particles into a fluidized bed reactor, and heating the fluidized bed reactor to a desired operating temperature T1. A flow of a carrier gas is initiated through a ...