G21C 5/126
Carbonic moderators
Official title: {Carbonic moderators (carbon and graphite in general C01B32/00; refractory carbon-bulbs C04B35/00; carbon electrodes C25B)}
G21C5/126 (Carbonic moderators) appears on 13 US grants and 23 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21C- Granted patents
- 13
- Published applications
- 23
- Assignees
- 15
- Inventors
- 40
- Latest grant
- 20 Jan 2026
Filings by year
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| 2019 | 4 | 2 |
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| 2023 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Customizable thin plate fuel form and reactor core therefor5 Mar 2024US 11,923,098 B2Howe Industries LLC
- Carbide-based fuel assembly for thermal propulsion applications15 Aug 2023US 11,728,044 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Customizable thin plate fuel form and reactor core therefor5 Oct 2021US 11,139,086 B2Howe Industries LLC
- Electrochemically modulated molten salt reactor20 Jul 2021US 11,069,449 B2Department of Energy
- Portable nuclear power system26 Jun 2025US 2025/0210214 A1Nucube Energy, Inc.
- Customizable Thin Plate Fuel Form and Reactor Core Therefor29 Aug 2024US 2024/0290509 A1Howe Industries LLC
- Thermal bridge7 Mar 2024US 2024/0079153 A1BAE SYSTEMS plc
- In-core printed circuit heat exchanger11 Jan 2024US 2024/0013937 A1The Texas A&M University System
- Carbide-based fuel assembly for thermal propulsion applications12 Oct 2023US 2023/0326618 A1BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Low capacity nuclear reactor housed underground in the cavity of a cylindrical pressure vessel6US 4,826,652 AHochtemperatur-Reaktorbau GmbH · 1989
- Molten salt reactor2US 10,008,293 B2Utah Green Energy Technologies, LLC · 2018
- Customizable thin plate fuel form and reactor core therefor2US 11,923,098 B2Howe Industries LLC · 2024
- Molten salt reactor that includes multiple fuel wedges that define fuel channels1US 10,283,223 B2Utah Green Energy Technologies, LLC · 2019
- Customizable thin plate fuel form and reactor core therefor1US 11,139,086 B2Howe Industries LLC · 2021