US Patent Issued to HELIOGEN HOLDINGS on Oct. 7 for "Tubular receiver for heating particles with solar energy" (Maryland, Texas, Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,907, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HELIOGEN HOLDINGS INC. (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Tubular receiver for heating particles with solar energy" was invented by Andrew Stephen Oles (Baltimore), Apurba Kumar Das (Katy, Texas), Chiranjeev Singh Kalra (Irvine, Calif.) and Gary Thomas Pashko (Ludlow, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particle receiver includes an inlet, an outlet and multiple tubes rotatably coupled to the inlet and the outlet. The tubes receive particles via the inlet, the particles passing along a passageway of each of the tubes to the outlet. The tubes receive a solar flux as they rotate to heat the particles passing ...