ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,935, issued on April 7, was assigned to ODQA RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (London).

"Solar receiver" was invented by Gediz Karaca (London), Peter Ireland (Oxford, Great Britain), Tsun Holt Wong (Oxford, Great Britain) and Ed Wood (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar receiver for converting solar radiation into thermal energy. The solar receiver includes a heat-absorbing solid body, a fluid system to provide a flow of working fluid proximate to the heat-absorbing solid body, and a movement device to move the heat-absorbing solid body such that one or more surfaces of the heat-absorbing solid body are per...