ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,260, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NORTH CHINA ELECTRICAL POWER UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Steam power cycle thermoelectric decoupling system, and control method, device, medium, and product thereof" was invented by Hanfei Zhang (Beijing), Yuanhui Wang (Beijing), Liqiang Duan (Beijing), Bohan Shang (Beijing), Jiaping Guo (Beijing), Shuaiyu Ji (Beijing), Liping Pang (Beijing) and Yongping Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steam power cycle thermoelectric decoupling system includes a molten salt heat storage system, a steam accumulator heat storage system, and a preheating system. The steam accumulator heat storage system...