ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,758, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Indian Oil Corporation Limited (Mumbai, India).

"Concentrated solar thermal system" was invented by Satyam Sahu (Faridabad, India), Vinay Tiwari (Faridabad, India), Umish Srivastva (Faridabad, India), Deepak Saxena (Faridabad, India) and Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a receiver for a concentrated thermal system. The thermal system includes a first heat exchange element helically coiled to receive a solar radiation from a first reflector and the second heat exchange element. Further, the first heat exchange element in...