ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,928, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to GYFT Labs (St. Helens, Ore.).
"Thermal energy storage and power generation system" was invented by Eric Joseph Linwood (St. Helens, Ore.), Kyle Allen Hanson (St. Helens, Ore.) and Cody William Dunlop (St. Helens, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal energy storage and power generation system includes a thermal energy storage device including a container, a heating element in the container, a pair of fins in the container and arranged on opposite sides of the heating element, a thermal storage material in the container, and a tube in the container and extending around the thermal storage ...