US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 10 for "Electrically conductive firebrick system" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,805, issued on June 10, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Electrically conductive firebrick system" was invented by Charles Forsberg (Lexington, Mass.) and Daniel C. Stack (Middletown, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal energy storage system includes a firebrick checkerwork and an electrode. The firebrick checkerwork includes one or more conductive firebrick layers, each including a plurality of electrically conductive doped metal oxide firebricks with one or more airflow vents. The electrode includes one or more electrode firebrick layers, each layer including a plurality of electr...