US Patent Issued to Hydrostor on July 22 for "Reuse of construction shafts in compressed air energy storage systems" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,326, issued on July 22, was assigned to Hydrostor Inc. (Toronto).

"Reuse of construction shafts in compressed air energy storage systems" was invented by Cameron Lewis (Toronto), Davin Young (Toronto), Lucas Thexton (Toronto), Josh Burtney (Sudbury, Canada) and Timothy Ross (Lakewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrostatically compensated compressed air energy storage system may include an accumulator disposed underground, a gas compressor/expander subsystem in fluid communication with the accumulator interior via an air flow path; a compensation liquid reservoir spaced apart from the accumulator and in fluid communicatio...