ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,442, issued on April 15, was assigned to PHOTON VAULT LLC (San Ramon, Calif.).
"Multi-temperature heat collection system" was invented by Kentwell Lee McCormick (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides in some aspects a thermal energy collection system comprising a first solar collector through which a first heat transfer fluid flows to absorb energy from sunlight as it passes through the first solar collector, and a second solar collector that collects energy from sunlight that has passed through the first solar collector. The first heat transfer fluid of the thermal energy collection system according ...