US Patent Issued to ICE Thermal Harvesting on May 27 for "Systems and methods utilizing gas temperature as a power source" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,981, issued on May 27, was assigned to ICE Thermal Harvesting LLC (Houston).

"Systems and methods utilizing gas temperature as a power source" was invented by Adrian Benjamin Bodishbaugh (Houston) and Carrie Jeanne Murtland (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and generating power in an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) operation to supply electrical power. In embodiments, an inlet temperature of a flow of gas from a source to an ORC unit may be determined. The source may connect to a main pipeline. The main pipeline may connect to a supply pipeline. The supply pipeline may connect to the ORC unit thereby to allow gas to flow fr...