US Patent Issued to Rondo Energy on May 5 for "Thermal energy storage system with a heat pump for improved efficiency" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,343, issued on May 5, was assigned to Rondo Energy Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Thermal energy storage system with a heat pump for improved efficiency" was invented by John Setel O'Donnell (Oakland, Calif.) and Yusef Desjardins Ferhani (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage system converts variable renewable electricity (VRE) to continuous heat. Intermittent electrical energy heats a solid medium. Heat from the solid medium is delivered continuously on demand. An array of bricks incorporating internal radiation cavities is directly heated by thermal radiation. The cavities facilitate rapid, uniform heating via...