Patents by Inventor Matthew Anderson Jessee

Matthew Anderson Jessee has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of determining a fresh fuel bundle design for a core of a nuclear reactor
    Patent number: 7574337
    Abstract: A method for determining a fresh fuel bundle design for a core of a nuclear reactor may include defining a plurality of inputs including user-defined target conditions for evaluating one or more reference fresh fuel bundle designs for each of N bundle groups, and generating a response surface based on making single rod-type changes in each (i,j) rod location of each bundle of a given reference bundle design being evaluated for each of the N bundle groups. A search algorithm may be iterated to evaluate a given combination of multiple rod-type changes made simultaneously across each of the N bundle groups using the generated response surface to determine an accepted fuel bundle design for each of the N bundle groups that satisfies the user-defined target conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Global Nuclear Fuel - Americas, LLC
    Inventors: David Joseph Kropaczek, Mehdi Asgari, Matthew Anderson Jessee