US Patent Issued to NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO on Oct. 14 for "High-cop heat pump with thermochemical storage system" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,571, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"High-cop heat pump with thermochemical storage system" was invented by Laurens Daniel Van Vliet (The Hague, Netherlands) and Ruud Cuypers (Rijswijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to energy storage and supply system (100) comprising a combination of a heat pump (HP) (2) and a thermochemical storage (TCS) (1) unit, adapted for storing and supplying energy. In a further aspect, the invention is directed to a method for operating the energy storage and su...