ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,246, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Fervo Energy Co. (Houston).
"Systems and methods for geothermal energy storage" was invented by Jack Norbeck (Golden, Colo.), Timothy Latimer (Houston) and Christian Gradl (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system may be used for storing energy in a geothermal system and recovering both the stored energy as well as thermal energy on demand. The geothermal system may include injection and production wells that are hydraulically coupled in a geothermal energy reservoir that behaves as a confined reservoir system with thermal energy transferring to fluid injected into the injecti...