# Russell Patrick Higgins — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Russell Patrick Higgins has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [Making Special Materials Inside Commercial Nuclear Power Plants](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9239385/method-of-producing-isotopes-in-power-nuclear-reactors) — granted 2016
  This patent describes a method for using the neutron radiation inside large commercial nuclear power reactors, specifically in their existing instrumentation tubes, to create useful isotopes like those used in medicine or industry.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/russell-patrick-higgins

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