US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Sept. 15 for "Solar energy storage and aquifer management" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,890, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Solar energy storage and aquifer management" was invented by Bryan Hall-Thompson (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ahmed H. Hutheli (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammad R. Hudaithi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Ghadeer A. Alrumaih (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar energy storage management system includes a solar thermal collection unit, a photovoltaic pre-heating system, and heat exchanger. The solar thermal collection unit collects incident radiation and adds heat into a heat transfer fluid. The first photovoltaic pre-heating...