US Patent Issued to Norwich Technologies on Sept. 2 for "Thermal energy storage system including a plurality of vessels each having hot and cold liquid portions separated by a floating piston" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,831, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Norwich Technologies Inc. (White River Junction, Vt.).

"Thermal energy storage system including a plurality of vessels each having hot and cold liquid portions separated by a floating piston" was invented by Jonathan Lynch (St. Johnsbury, Vt.), Troy O. McBride (Norwich, Vt.), Joel Stettenheim (Norwich, Vt.), Per Erik Kristoffer Edstrom (Stockbridge, Vt.), Lief Johnson (West Lebanon, N.H.) and Oliver James Brambles (Wesham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal energy storage system comprising a working fluid to store and transfer thermal energy between a heat source and a therm...