ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,666, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to EXA ENERGY TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Multistage-compression energy storage apparatus and method based on carbon dioxide gas-liquid phase change" was invented by Yonghui Xie (Shenzhen, China), Qin Wang (Shenzhen, China), Lei Sun (Shenzhen, China), Yuqi Wang (Shenzhen, China), Di Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Yongliang Guo (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoyong Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Feng Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage apparatus and method based on carbon dioxide gas-liquid phase change. The energy storage apparatus comprises a gas storage rese...