ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,784, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Orca Sciences LLC (Kirkland, Wash.).
"System and method for thermal energy storage" was invented by Austin Blake Vernon (Kirkland, Wash.), James Williams (Kirkland, Wash.), Aravindh Rajan (Kirkland, Wash.) and Ian Salmon McKay (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include: a heat storage medium (e.g., soil, dirt, gley, sand, earth, bedrock, gravel, clay, silt, loam, rock, talus, scree, volcanic material, glacial debris, humus, and/or other earthen material), a heat transfer mechanism (e.g., resistive heater, inductive heater, forced air heater, forced fluid heater, etc.),...