US Patent Issued to Rheenergise on April 7 for "Relating to energy storage" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,777, issued on April 7, was assigned to Rheenergise Ltd. (London).

"Relating to energy storage" was invented by Tamas Bertenyi (Montreal) and Christian Porowski (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes a system for storing energy. The system includes upper and lower reservoirs, a working fluid, and a conduit arranged to permit flow of the working fluid from the upper reservoir to the lower reservoir under gravity. The conduit has a turbine generator arranged to be driven by the flow of the working fluid to generate energy. A heat transfer device is arranged to transfer heat to and/or from the upper res...