ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,060, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYO ENGINEERING Corp. (Tokyo).
"Method for storing compressed air energy" was invented by Yoshikazu Ishii (Atami, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An economical compressed air energy storage (CAES) method effectively utilizing the capacity of space in the air storage portion in CAES plants to reduce the plant costs thereof is provided. An air storage portion is configured from a plurality of vessels, and a film to provide spaces with freely deformable shapes is disposed within each vessel. In the air compression step, the space on one side of the film within each vessel is filled in advanc...