ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,067, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CHINA THREE GORGES Corp. (China).

"Multipurpose multi-source heat-storing compressed air energy storage system and method of same" was invented by Ningning Xie (Beijing), Xinxing Lin (Beijing), Likun Yin (Beijing) and Changping Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a multipurpose multi-source heat-storing compressed air energy storage system and a method thereof, including a packed bed heat-storing device, a heat-storing circuit, a heat-releasing circuit, a gas-storing circuit, a photothermal circuit, a heating-supplying circuit and a cooling-supplying circ...