US Patent Issued to OCTOPUS ENERGY HEATING on May 20 for "Energy storage arrangement and installations" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,930, issued on May 20, was assigned to OCTOPUS ENERGY HEATING Ltd. (London).

"Energy storage arrangement and installations" was invented by Peter Konowalczyk (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy bank is provided, comprising a heat exchanger within an enclosure, with an input-side circuit for connection to an energy source; an output-side circuit for connection to an energy sink; and a phase-change material for energy storage. The energy bank includes one or more sensors to measure energy stored as latent heat, an optical source to launch light into the phase change material, and an optical sensing arrangement to detect li...