G21D 3/002
Core design
Official title: {Core design; core simulations; core optimisation}
G21D3/002 (Core design) appears on 37 US grants and 62 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21D- Granted patents
- 37
- Published applications
- 62
- Assignees
- 37
- Inventors
- 173
- Latest grant
- 18 Mar 2025
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| 2023 | 2 | 5 |
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| 2026 | 0 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method of determination of a nuclear core loading pattern18 Mar 2025US 12,254,996 B2Framatome
- Using xenon concentration in controlling a nuclear power plant7 Jan 2025US 12,191,044 B2Framatome
- Method and apparatus for real-time learning-based augmented irradiation control and optimization1 Oct 2024US 12,106,865 B2Oregon State University
- Optimization of expensive cost functions subject to complex multidimensional constraints4 Jun 2024US 12,001,766 B2BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
- Dynamic characteristic analysis method of DET and RELAP5 coupling based on universal instrumental variable method19 Mar 2024US 11,935,664 B2Harbin Engineering University
- Nuclear reactor, reactor internals, and method for designing same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301981 A1Shanghai Nuclear Engineering Research & Design Institute
- GPU-Accelerated Real-Time Digital Twin with Divergence Detection for Control of Land-Based Nuclear Reactors30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221301 A1Hgp Intelligent Energy, LLC
- Three-dimensional thermal-hydraulic analysis method and system for reactor core15 Jan 2026US 2026/0018310 A1Harbin Engineering University
- Optimizing the Detector Placement for the Nuclear Reactor Core software using Reinforcement Learning31 Jul 2025US 2025/0246326 A1Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Method for controlling a pressurized water reactor, computer program product and control system8 May 2025US 2025/0149197 A1Framatome
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of determining a fresh fuel bundle design for a core of a nuclear reactor37US 7,574,337 B2Global Nuclear Fuel - Americas, LLC · 2009
- Method for computer modeling the core of a nuclear reactor35US 7,428,479 B2Areva Np · 2008
- Method of determining nuclear reactor core design with reduced control blade density32US 7,424,412 B2Global Nuclear Fuel - Americas, LLC · 2008
- Method and system for direct evaluation of operating limit minimum critical power ratios for boiling water reactors31US 5,912,933 AGeneral Electric Company · 1999
- Method of establishing a nuclear reactor core fuel assembly loading pattern16US 6,931,090 B2Westinghouse Electric Corp. · 2005