Lightbridge Corporation announced that it received a Notice of Acceptance for a key divisional patent from the Australia Patent Office related to Lightbridge’s innovative metallic nuclear fuel assembly design. The newly allowed patent is based on the 2015 Patent Cooperation Treaty patent application and covers a fuel assembly having a mixed grid pattern of fuel rods. Lightbridge Fuel™ has been designed to enhance the safety and economics of nuclear power for both existing and next-generation nuclear reactors.