US Patent Issued to MAGALDI POWER on Sept. 15 for "Device, plant and method for the storage and transfer of thermal energy of solar origin" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,878, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MAGALDI POWER S.P.A. (Rome).

"Device, plant and method for the storage and transfer of thermal energy of solar origin" was invented by Mario Magaldi (Salerno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the present invention is to use the high temperature thermal power stored in the fluid bed in conjunction with thermophotovoltaic (TPV) technology. TPV technology requires thermal emitters at high temperature (less than600deg C.) to produce electricity from thermal radiation. TPV thermal emitters are located immersed in or exposed to a hot particles fluidized bed, protected by suitable ...