US Patent Issued to Tree Associates on July 1 for "Engine" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,202, issued on July 1, was assigned to Tree Associates Ltd. (Norwich, Great Britain).

"Engine" was invented by Bernard Killingbeck (Norwich, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An engine (1) comprises a compressed gas source (3) and a fluid circuit connected to an output of the compressed gas source such that compressed gas can be driven through the circuit by the compressed gas source. The output of the compressed gas source is connected, through the fluid circuit, to a turbine component (5) connected to a rotating shaft (9) that acts as the output of the engine in use. A heat exchanger (13) receives fluid in the circuit tha...