US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Feb. 3 for "Brayton electrochemical refrigerator/air conditioner" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,760, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Brayton electrochemical refrigerator/air conditioner" was invented by Shannon Yee (Atlanta) and Aravindh Rajan (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to systems and methods for electrochemical cooling and/or refrigeration. The disclosed system includes at least hot and cold electrochemical cells having ion exchange membranes, hot side and cold side heat exchangers, a heat sink, a heat source, and an external power supply that drives current through the electrochemical cells. In the systems, a first solution including a first redox ac...