US Patent Issued to Sapphire Technologies on April 29 for "Process integration in electrical power generation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,034, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sapphire Technologies Inc. (Cerritos, Calif.).

"Process integration in electrical power generation" was invented by Jeffrey Earl (Cerritos, Calif.) and Jeremy Liu (Cerritos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an electric generator, a power electronics system, and a heat exchanger. The electric generator includes a turbine wheel, a rotor, and a stator. The turbine wheel is configured to receive process gas and rotate in response to expansion of the process gas flowing into an inlet of the turbine wheel and out of an outlet of the turbine wheel. The rotor is configured to rot...