US Patent Issued to Schlumberger Technology on Jan. 20 for "Renewable power generation and storage using photovoltaic modules, solar thermal storage, and batteries" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,502, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Renewable power generation and storage using photovoltaic modules, solar thermal storage, and batteries" was invented by Evan Biggers (Houston), Sandeep Verma (Cambridge, Mass.) and Arindam Bhattacharya (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing electrical power includes a high temperature heat source, an ambient temperature heat sink, an ORC generator, a solar thermal collector, and an SDES device. The ORC generator includes a generator working fluid with a boiling temperature greater than an ambient temperature of the amb...