Patents Assigned to Rock Creek Innovations, LLC
  • Nuclear reactor protection systems and methods
    Patent number: 11069450
    Abstract: A nuclear reactor protection system includes a plurality of functionally independent modules, each of the modules configured to receive a plurality of inputs from a nuclear reactor safety system, and logically determine a safety action based at least in part on the plurality of inputs, each of the functionally independent modules comprising a digital module or a combination digital and analog module, an analog module electrically coupled to one or more of the functionally independent modules, and one or more nuclear reactor safety actuators communicably coupled to the plurality of functionally independent modules to receive the safety action determination based at least in part on the plurality of inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: NuScale Power, LLC, Rock Creek Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Wayne Clarkson, Rufino Ayala, Jason Pottorf
  • Nuclear reactor protection systems and methods
    Patent number: 11017907
    Abstract: A nuclear reactor protection system includes a plurality of functionally independent modules, each of the modules configured to receive a plurality of inputs from a nuclear reactor safety system, and logically determine a safety action based at least in part on the plurality of inputs; and one or more nuclear reactor safety actuators communicably coupled to the plurality of functionally independent modules to receive the safety action determination based at least in part on the plurality of inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignees: NuScale Power, LLC, Rock Creek Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Wayne Clarkson, Rufino Ayala, Jason Pottorf
  • Nuclear reactor protection systems and methods
    Patent number: 10950357
    Abstract: A nuclear reactor protection system includes a plurality of functionally independent modules, each of the modules configured to receive a plurality of inputs from a nuclear reactor safety system, and logically determine a safety action based at least in part on the plurality of inputs, each of the functionally independent modules comprising a digital module or a combination digital and analog module, an analog module electrically coupled to one or more of the functionally independent modules, and one or more nuclear reactor safety actuators communicably coupled to the plurality of functionally independent modules to receive the safety action determination based at least in part on the plurality of inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignees: NuScale Power, LLC, Rock Creek Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Wayne Clarkson, Rufino Ayala, Jason Pottorf
  • Nuclear Reactor Protection Systems and Methods
    Publication number: 20200343009
    Abstract: A nuclear reactor protection system includes a plurality of functionally independent modules, each of the modules configured to receive a plurality of inputs from a nuclear reactor safety system, and logically determine a safety action based at least in part on the plurality of inputs; and one or more nuclear reactor safety actuators communicably coupled to the plurality of functionally independent modules to receive the safety action determination based at least in part on the plurality of inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicants: NuScale Power, LLC, Rock Creek Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Wayne Clarkson, Rufino Ayala, Jason Pottorf