ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,902, issued on May 12.
"Modular thermal energy storage and transfer in a PCM hosting system" was invented by Barry Richard Brooks (Pilot Hill, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments disclose a modular seasonal thermal-energy storage and transfer system that includes an energy-storage module (ESM) with a plurality of chambers that contain phase-change material (PCM) that stores thermal energy. An energy fluid is routed through the ESM, and the temperature of the energy fluid triggers a phase change in the PCM to transfer energy between the PCM and the energy fluid. A control mechanism can adjust the flow of the...