US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on July 1 for "Integrated hybrid solar energy plant and district heating and cooling network" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,185, issued on July 1, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Integrated hybrid solar energy plant and district heating and cooling network" was invented by Julien Toniolo (Sugar Land, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a solar thermal collector including a photovoltaic (PV) module, wherein the solar thermal collector is configured to convert a first portion of sunlight to thermal energy and a second portion of the sunlight to electrical energy. A system may include a thermal cycle generator configured to generate electricity including a generator working fluid, wherein the generator...