ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,124, issued on June 10, was assigned to Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).
"Internal combustion engine with thermochemical recuperation of waste heat and a method for thermochemical recuperation" was invented by Leonid Tartakovsky (Haifa, Israel), Moshe Sheintuch (Haifa, Israel), Mark Veinblat (Haifa, Israel) and Andy Thawko (Kfar-Kama, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermochemical recuperation (TCR) system that may use a water-alcohol mixture as an engine liquid coolant; that may include a TCR reformer configured to output a TCR product at pressure no less than twenty bars; a pressure regulat...