ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,118, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mainspring Energy Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Core synchronization for linear generators" was invented by Nick Schaeferle (Fremont, Calif.), Yuk Hei Wong (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Patrick Gorzelic (San Francisco) and Matthew Roelle (Belmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for controlling two or more linear generators each operating according to a repeated behavior to constitute a cycle. A control system utilizes control circuitry to determine a desired phase offset between operation cycles of a first linear generator and a second linear generator of the two...