G21C 3/044
Fuel elements with porous or capillary structure
Official title: {Fuel elements with porous or capillary structure}
G21C3/044 (Fuel elements with porous or capillary structure) appears on 29 US grants and 33 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 29
- Published applications
- 33
- Assignees
- 18
- Inventors
- 84
- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
Filings by year
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| 2016 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 3 | 6 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 |
| 2019 | 5 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2 | 6 |
| 2021 | 5 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 4 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Using additive manufacturing in creating a nuclear fuel structure with a shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid having a triply periodic minimal surface7 Oct 2025US 12,437,891 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- High efficiency foam compacts for TRISO fuels24 Dec 2024US 12,176,114 B2UT-Battelle, LLC
- Functionally graded lattice cermet fuel structure with shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid, particularly for nuclear thermal propulsion applications3 Dec 2024US 12,159,726 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Functionally graded lattice cermet fuel structure with shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid, particularly for nuclear thermal propulsion applications3 Dec 2024US 12,159,727 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Processing ultra high temperature zirconium carbide microencapsulated nuclear fuel20 Aug 2024US 12,068,084 B2Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation
- Swell Resistant Fuel Pellets and Methods of Manufacture Thereof20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245750 A1
- Functionally graded lattice cermet fuel structure with shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid, particularly for nuclear thermal propulsion applications8 Aug 2024US 2024/0266077 A1BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Functionally graded lattice cermet fuel structure with shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid, particularly for nuclear thermal propulsion applications1 Feb 2024US 2024/0038405 A1BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Functionally graded lattice cermet fuel structure with shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid, particularly for nuclear thermal propulsion applications1 Feb 2024US 2024/0038406 A1BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Processing Ultra High Temperature Zirconium Carbide Microencapsulated Nuclear Fuel12 Oct 2023US 2023/0326619 A1Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nuclear fuel elements and method of making same19US 5,094,804 AAssociated Universities, Inc. · 1992
- Dispersion ceramic micro-encapsulated (DCM) nuclear fuel and related methods16US 9,620,248 B2Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation · 2017
- Nuclear fuel and method of fabricating the same15US 9,941,025 B2TerraPower, LLC · 2018
- Dispersion ceramic micro-encapsulated (DCM) nuclear fuel and related methods14US 10,475,543 B2Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation · 2019
- Functionally graded lattice cermet fuel structure with shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid, particularly for nuclear thermal propulsion applications9US 11,424,041 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC · 2022