US Patent Issued to ICE ENERGY on June 23 for "Integration of a thermal energy storage unit with an external HVAC system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,172, issued on June 23, was assigned to ICE ENERGY INC. (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"Integration of a thermal energy storage unit with an external HVAC system" was invented by Joseph Ohne Raasch (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Joseph Condon (Oak Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a system and method and device for providing cooling to an external heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system from a refrigerant-based thermal storage system with an ice-tank heat exchanger that cools a refrigerant that is circulated to the HVAC system during an ice make mode."

The patent was filed on April 10, 2023, under Applicati...