US Patent Issued to UCHICAGO ARGONNE on April 29 for "Method for buffering latent heat thermal energy" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,155, issued on April 29, was assigned to UCHICAGO ARGONNE LLC (Chicago).

"Method for buffering latent heat thermal energy" was invented by Dileep Singh (Naperville, Ill.), David M. France (Lombard, Ill.) and Wenhua Yu (Darien, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for reclaiming heat from a fluid, the method having the steps of contacting the fluid to a phase change material for a time sufficient to increase the temperature of the material and or liquefy some of it; and contacting the material to a second fluid for a time sufficient to increase the temperature of the second fluid and to decrease the tempe...