ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,685, issued on April 22, was assigned to Torus Inc. (South Salt Lake, Utah).
"Stacking flywheel and linkage" was invented by Nathan Walkingshaw (Sandy, Utah), Calab Nelson (Springville, Utah), John Loveless (Layton, Utah), Zahra Derafshi (Cambridge, Mass.), Cliff Lambarth (Portage, Mich.) and Sean Peterson (Payson, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flywheel system may include one or more massive plates. A system may include two or more clamping plates including a bottom clamping plate and a top clamping plate, the one or more massive plates being located between the two or more clamping plates. A system may include two or more axl...