ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,266, issued on April 15, was assigned to EXERGYN LTD. (Dublin).
"Engine operating using a compression SMA material" was invented by Mike Langan (Dublin), Keith Warren (Dublin) and Kevin O'Toole (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Energy recovery device and method for recovering energy comprising an engine comprising a plurality of elongated Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) elements or Negative Thermal Expansion (NTE) elements configured as a core and connected to a drive mechanism; an immersion chamber adapted for housing the engine and adapted to be sequentially filled with fluid to allow a heating cycle and a cooling cycle of the SMA ele...