US Patent Issued to Intellihot on Aug. 5 for "Heating system including photovoltaic thermal system" (Texas, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,511, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Intellihot Inc. (Galesburg, Ill.).

"Heating system including photovoltaic thermal system" was invented by Sridhar Deivasigamani (Mundelein, Ill.) and Sivaprasad Akasam (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating system includes a thermal battery, a heat pump configured to store heat in the thermal battery, a photovoltaic thermal system including a solar electric generator and a solar thermal generator, wherein the solar thermal generator is configured to store heat in the thermal battery and the solar electric generator is configured to generate electrical charge and a housing wit...