US Patent Issued to Energy Recovery on Sept. 1 for "Refrigeration and heat pump systems with pressure exchangers" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,782, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Energy Recovery Inc. (San Leandro, Calif.).

"Refrigeration and heat pump systems with pressure exchangers" was invented by Azam Mihir Thatte (Kensington, Calif.), Behzad Zamanian Yazdi (San Francisco), David Deloyd Anderson (Castro Valley, Calif.), James Elliott McLean Jr. (Houston), Joseph Michael Marchetti (Spring, Texas), Omprakash Samudrala (San Ramon, Calif.), Neelesh Sarawate (Pleasanton, Calif.), Kuo-Chiang Chen (Dublin, Calif.) and Farshad Ghasripoor (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a pressure exchanger (PX) configured to receive a first fluid at a firs...