ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,443, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to 8 Rivers Capital LLC (Durham, N.C.).

"Control schemes for thermal management of power production systems and methods" was invented by Brock Alan Forrest (Durham, N.C.), Xijia Lu (Durham, N.C.), Jeremy Eron Fetvedt (Raleigh, N.C.) and Navid Rafati (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to systems and methods for controlling a power production plant and optionally providing a one or more product streams for an end use thereof. Control of a power production plant specifically can include executing one or more functions effective for adjusting a heat profile of a...