ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,152, issued on March 17, was assigned to Wellhead Power Solutions LLC (Sacramento, Calif.).
"Thermal energy storage system" was invented by Andrew Cameron Robertson (Fresno, Calif.), Harold Edwin Dittmer (Sacramento, Calif.), Gary Alan Franzen (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Timothy Michael Mann (Yuba City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a thermal storage system for storing energy in a graphite thermal storage structure and a thermal shutter assembly configured to control the transmission of heat from the graphite thermal storage structure to a thermal energy receiver, such as a heat exchanger or mat...