ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,397, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SOM-EV NEWCO LLC (New York).
"Energy storage tower" was invented by Andrea Pedretti (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Jose Euclides Andrade (Pasadena, Calif.) and William Frazier Baker Jr. (Evanston, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage tower can include an upper floor section with one or more floors. A pump, a turbine, a turbine-pump, or a plurality of turbine pumps on, below or proximate the ground can be hydraulically connected with each of the floors in the upper floor section. To store energy, water can be pumped from a lower elevation, to one or more of the floors in the upper flo...