US Patent Issued to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO on Sept. 30 for "Thermal energy storage concept with high energy storage density" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,291, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Thermal energy storage concept with high energy storage density" was invented by Martin Mohana (Delft, Netherlands), Pavol Bodis (Hoofddorp, Netherlands), Laurens Daniel Van Vliet ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands) and Ruud Cuypers (Rijswijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a sensible heat storage apparatus that comprises a core material that can be heated to a high temperature while it has been placed in a heat transfer fluid that absorbs essentially all th...