US Patent Issued to Rondo Energy on Dec. 16 for "Thermal energy storage system with radiation cavities" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,910, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Rondo Energy Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Thermal energy storage system with radiation cavities" was invented by John Setel O'Donnell (Oakland, Calif.), Peter Emery von Behrens (Oakland, Calif.), Chiaki Treynor (Berkeley, Calif.), Matthieu Jonemann (Redwood City, Calif.) and Robert Ratz (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes one or more thermal storage blocks that define a radiation chamber and a fluid flow slot positioned above the radiation chamber to define a fluid pathway in a first direction. The apparatus includes a heater element positioned adjacent to the rad...