ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,037, issued on May 6, was assigned to Hydrostor Inc. (Toronto).
"Compressed gas energy storage system" was invented by Cameron Lewis (Toronto) and Andrew McGillis (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compressed air energy storage system may have an accumulator and a thermal storage subsystem having a cold storage chamber for containing a supply of granular heat transfer, a hot storage chamber and at least a first mixing chamber in the gas flow path and having an interior in which the compressed gas contacts the granular heat transfer particles at a mixing pressure that is greater than the cold storage pressure and the hot storag...