ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,007, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Stoic Transitional Resources Inc. (Calgary, Canada).

"Geothermal energy system" was invented by Grant John Christie (Calgary, Canada), Philip A. Keele (Calgary, Canada) and Joseph Tarrant (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for geothermal heating, the system comprising a forced geothermal circuit in communication with a well bore; a gyroid heat exchanger, the gyroid heat exchanger in communication with a closed loop working fluid circuit; and a production casing. A method of optimizing energy recovery from a geothermal well comprising selecting a well bore gyroid heat exchang...