ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,956, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nostromo Ltd. (Even-Yehuda, Israel).
"Fluid flow in thermal storage containers" was invented by Yaron Ben Nun (Even-Yehuda, Israel), Eyal Ziv (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Nadav Amir (Rehovot, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal-storage container used in thermal systems to exchange heat by fluid flow though phase-changing material disposed inside the thermal-storage container, including a thermal-storage container housing, a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and one or more capsules containing the phase-change material, and defining a plurality of passages configured to direct the flow of th...