US Patent Issued to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY on July 1 for "Thermal impact of gas storage" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,198, issued on July 1, was assigned to SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Thermal impact of gas storage" was invented by Ashley Bernard Johnson (Milton, Great Britain) and Jonathan Robert Hird (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided that store and release compressed gas, which include an accumulator for storing compressed gas, a gas compressor, a thermal storage subsystem, a plurality of secondary heater stages and a corresponding plurality of gas expander stages, and a secondary heat source. During accumulation operations, the thermal storage subsystem is configured t...