US Patent Issued to Rondo Energy on June 3 for "Thermal energy storage system with deep discharge" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,277, issued on June 3, was assigned to Rondo Energy Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Thermal energy storage system with deep discharge" 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 energy storage system 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 continuously on demand. An array of bricks incorporating internal radiat...