ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,270, issued on June 30, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).
"State of charge sensor for phase change material thermal energy storage" was invented by Joseph D. Rendall (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Som S. Shrestha (Knoxville, Tenn.), Anthony C. Gehl (Knoxville, Tenn.), Jerald A. Atchley (Louisville, Tenn.), Diana Hun (Lenoir City, Tenn.) and Zhenglai Shen (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal energy storage system includes a heat exchange module having a quantity of phase change material and a quantity of reference gas in fluid communication with the phase change material. A sensor is provided for sensing t...