US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on June 17 for "Solar powered refrigeration systems" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,968, issued on June 17, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Solar powered refrigeration systems" was invented by Ayman Jamal Alazazmeh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems of the present disclosure include a solar-powered steam Rankine cycle (SRC) subsystem to convert solar energy into thermal energy and store the thermal energy; an ejector refrigeration cycle (ERC) subsystem to provide a first refrigeration effect with a first range of temperature based on the thermal energy; an absorption refrigeration cycle (ARC) subsystem to provide a second refrige...