US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on July 15 for "Thermal energy storage and heat rejection system" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,851, issued on July 15, was assigned to Rolls-Royce Corp. (Indianapolis) and Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Thermal energy storage and heat rejection system" was invented by Brian Thomas Spangler (Avon, Ind.) and Douglas J. Snyder (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system is provided including a two-phase pump loop and a vapor compression system. The two-phase pump loop cools a thermal load with a first coolant. The vapor compression system is configured to circulate a second coolant. The vapor compression system includes a liquid vapor separator which separates the second coolant in...