ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,056, issued on May 13, was assigned to Hydrostor Inc. (Toronto).
"Construction elements and maintenance methods for compressed air energy storage systems" was invented by Cameron Lewis (Toronto), Davin Young (Toronto), Lucas Thexton (Toronto) and Josh Burtney (Sudbury, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transitioning a hydrostatically compensated compressed air energy storage system from an operating mode to a dewatered maintenance state may include a) charging an accumulator to a fully charged state where the air water interface is at a charge plane by conveying compressed air at a storage pressure into the layer of c...