ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,249, issued on May 26, was assigned to OTHER LAB LLC (San Francisco).
"Thermal storage system and method" was invented by Saul Thomas Griffith (San Francisco), Brenton Piercy (San Francisco), Hans von Clemm (Palo Alto, Calif.), Pushan Panda (San Francisco) and Joanne Huang (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal storage system that includes one or more thermal storage tanks having a tank body that defines a tank cavity configured to hold a tank thermal storage medium; a heat exchanger assembly disposed in the tank cavity configured to run a flow of working thermal storage medium through the one or more thermal storage ...