ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,819, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Torus Inc. (South Salt Lake, Utah).
"Flywheel magnetic lift and bearing system" was invented by Nathan Walkingshaw (Sandy, Utah), Calab Nelson (Springville, Utah), John Loveless (Layton, Utah), Zahra Derafshi (Cambridge, Mass.), Cliff Lambarth (Portage, Mich.) and Sean Peterson (Payson, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a massive flywheel including a rotatable mass component and one or more axles coupled with the rotatable mass component. A system may include a magnetic lift component having one or more magnets positioned around a center perforation, the one or more axles p...