US Patent Issued to Terna on Aug. 12 for "Flywheel doubly-fed system with capability to supply a double inertial contribution, natural and synthetic, and related innovative operation logic" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,264, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Terna S.p.A. (Rome).

"Flywheel doubly-fed system with capability to supply a double inertial contribution, natural and synthetic, and related innovative operation logic" was invented by Francesco Palone (Rome), Luca Buono (Rome) and Marco Pietrucci (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for supporting the stability of an electrical grid comprises an asynchronous electric machine with an accessible rotor circuit and a stator with a stator circuit connected to the grid. A flywheel is coupled to the rotor, for the machine to absorb electric energy and store it as kinetic energy, and to conv...