US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies on July 29 for "Methods and systems for measuring state of charge of a phase change material thermal battery" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,311, issued on July 29, was assigned to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Methods and systems for measuring state of charge of a phase change material thermal battery" was invented by Nader Maharmeh (Indianapolis), Craig English (Indianapolis), Eric Donovan (Indianapolis), Eugene Jansen (Indianapolis) and Ryan Young (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal battery system includes a vessel comprising a phase change material and a gas; a heat exchanger configured to transfer heat to and/or from the phase change material; a temperature sensor configured to detect an indication of a temperature o...