US Patent Issued to Rondo Energy on Jan. 13 for "Thermal energy storage system coupled with steam cracking system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,165, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Rondo Energy Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Thermal energy storage system coupled with steam cracking system" was invented by John Setel O'Donnell (Oakland, Calif.), Yusef Desjardins Ferhani (Menlo Park, 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 energy storage system (TES) converts variable renewable electricity (VRE) to continuous heat at over 1000deg C. Intermittent electrical energy heats a solid medium. Heat from the solid medium is delivered co...