ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,139, issued on June 10.
"Systems and methods for compressed air energy storage and control thereof" was invented by Kamyar Rouindej (Waterloo, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for energy storage are provided. A system for energy storage includes a thermomechanical-electrical conversion subsystem for converting energy formats and a mechanical and thermal storage unit for storing energy formats. The thermomechanical-electrical conversion subsystem includes a storage subsystem including a compressor and a first thermal energy exchanger and a generation subsystem including a power generator and a second...