US Patent Issued to Hydrostor on April 15 for "Three section configuration for compressed air energy storage systems" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,462, issued on April 15, was assigned to Hydrostor Inc. (Toronto).

"Three section configuration for compressed air energy storage systems" was invented by Davin Young (Toronto), Lucas Thexton (Toronto) and Cameron Lewis (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of temporarily storing thermal energy via a thermal storage subsystem in a compressed air energy storage system comprising an accumulator disposed at least 300 m underground and having an interior configured to contain compressed air at an accumulator pressure that is at least 20 bar and a gas compressor/expander subsystem in communication with the accumulator via an air...