US Patent Issued to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION on Feb. 24 for "Operation method of a heat engine device using a single ion" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,153, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION (Pohang-si, South Korea).

"Operation method of a heat engine device using a single ion" was invented by Moon Joo Lee (Pohang-si, South Korea), Myung Hun Kim (Pohang-si, South Korea) and Jun Hee Cho (Pohang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an operation method of a heat engine device using a single ion configured to greatly improve the efficiency of a heat engine by performing work in a different way than heat engine apparatuses to which classical thermodynamics applies. With the single ion heat engine device, a heat e...