ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,238, issued on July 8, was assigned to Power8 Tech. Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Energy storage systems and methods using heterogeneous pressure media and interactive actuation module" was invented by Lien Chun Ding (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Qiu Shui Su (Maoming, China), Song Yuan Lin (Shenzhen, China) and Chih Cheng Tai (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage system includes at least one heterogeneous pressure media and interactive actuation module ("module"), a liquid source, a pump, a converter, a first pipeline, and a second pipeline. The module includes a first container storing an initial gas and a second conta...