US Patent Issued to Stolle Machinery on Feb. 10 for "Energy harvesting system and method with stirling engine for container manufacturing process" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,271, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Stolle Machinery Co. LLC (Centennial, Colo.).

"Energy harvesting system and method with stirling engine for container manufacturing process" was invented by Stephen D. Christensen (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and John Nigel Grainger (West Yorkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy harvesting system for use in a container manufacturing process includes a heat exchanger structured to receive waste energy from a waste energy source in the container manufacturing process and to heat a working fluid using the waste energy, and a Stirling engine structured to convert heat in the wo...