ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,137, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to MAGALDI POWER S.P.A. (Rome).
"Plant and method for accumulation of energy in thermal form" was invented by Mario Magaldi (Salerno, Italy) and Fulvio Bassetti (Salerno, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plant for the accumulation and transfer of thermal energy, which plant has an accumulation device of the kind with a bed of fluidizable solid particles. The plant further has for each accumulation device electric resistor means arranged within the casing and thermally connected with the bed of particles, which electric resistors are configured for transmitting thermal energy generated by Joule...