US Patent Issued to Exergyn on Aug. 5 for "Gas separated cycling of SMA/NTE bundles in a fluid environment for power production cycle or heat pump cycles" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,951, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Exergyn Ltd. (Dublin).

"Gas separated cycling of SMA/NTE bundles in a fluid environment for power production cycle or heat pump cycles" was invented by Kevin O'Toole (Dublin), Gary O'Sullivan (Dublin) and Jan Pilch (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides energy recovery or heat pump system comprising a plurality of Shape-Memory Alloy (SMAs) or Negative Thermal Expansion (NTE) elements arranged to define a core and housed in an immersion chamber. A first fluid can be introduced into the chamber provides a first temperature change to activate the core from a first state to a s...