G21C 3/16
Details of the construction within the casing
G21C3/16 (Details of the construction within the casing) appears on 349 US grants and 240 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 349
- Published applications
- 240
- Assignees
- 128
- Inventors
- 745
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 14 | 0 |
| 1977 | 13 | 0 |
| 1978 | 14 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981 | 8 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983 | 7 | 0 |
| 1984 | 6 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
| 1986 | 12 | 0 |
| 1987 | 19 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 7 | 0 |
| 1990 | 10 | 0 |
| 1991 | 10 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 13 | 0 |
| 1994 | 11 | 0 |
| 1995 | 7 | 0 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 3 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 4 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 10 |
| 2010 | 1 | 8 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5 |
| 2013 | 0 | 8 |
| 2014 | 8 | 12 |
| 2015 | 4 | 11 |
| 2016 | 7 | 6 |
| 2017 | 19 | 18 |
| 2018 | 10 | 17 |
| 2019 | 10 | 12 |
| 2020 | 12 | 23 |
| 2021 | 15 | 19 |
| 2022 | 17 | 25 |
| 2023 | 16 | 18 |
| 2024 | 10 | 14 |
| 2025 | 10 | 7 |
| 2026 | 7 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Fuel element with multi-smear density fuel4 Aug 2026US 12,700,514 B2TerraPower, LLC
- Fuel cladding covered by a mesh4 Aug 2026US 12,700,515 B2Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Multi-layered nuclear fuel cladding and method for manufacturing multi-layered nuclear fuel cladding9 Jun 2026US 12,651,673 B2Gachon University of Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
- Nuclear fuel assembly with multi-pitch wire wrap21 Apr 2026US 12,609,209 B2TerraPower, LLC
- Nuclear reactor24 Feb 2026US 12,562,288 B2Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
- Integral burnable coating for resisting fuel fragmentation, relocation, and dispersal and pellet-cladding bond formation6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229375 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Stackable fuel block and method of constructing same6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229377 A1Westinghouse Electric Corp.
- Nuclear fuel pellet with radially variable enrichment23 Jul 2026US 2026/0213028 A1
- Fuel cladding interactions (fci) resistant coating and methods of making the same18 Jun 2026US 2026/0168108 A1Uchicago Argonne, LLC
- Ordered particle fuel4 Jun 2026US 2026/0155265 A1Standard Nuclear, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nuclear fuel element49US 4,200,492 AGeneral Electric Company · 1980
- Sputtering process burnable poison coating47US 5,272,735 ACombustion Engineering, Inc. · 1993
- Method of manufacturing a tube having a film on its inner peripheral surface and apparatus for manufacturing the same45US 5,935,391 ANissin Electric Co., Ltd. · 1999
- Paint compositions43US 4,035,265 AThe Research Association of British, Paint, Colour & Varnish Manufacturers · 1977
- Nuclear fuel element having oxidation resistant cladding42US 4,894,203 AGeneral Electric Company · 1990