US Patent Issued to Blueshift on July 22 for "Supplemental solar concentrator for the heating of particles" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,384, issued on July 22, was assigned to Blueshift LLC (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Supplemental solar concentrator for the heating of particles" was invented by Andrew Timon Brewer (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), Ryan Garvey (Lafayette, Colo.), Alan Thomas Carter (Arvada, Colo.), Austin Kenneth Miller (Niwot, Colo.) and Troy Southard (Edgewater, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar energy particle receiver system and method of use for precise and controlled heating, sintering, and/or phase change of particles. In one embodiment, the solar energy particle receiver system directs sunlight from a primary concentrator into supplemental concentrat...