US Patent Issued to WHITAKER ENGINEERING (STONEHAVEN) on April 15 for "Heat pump system and a method of operating a heat pump system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,546, issued on April 15, was assigned to WHITAKER ENGINEERING (STONEHAVEN) Ltd. (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).

"Heat pump system and a method of operating a heat pump system" was invented by Kenneth Whittaker (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain), Keith Graham Watt (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain) and Matthias Graessner (Aberdeenshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat pump system includes a regenerative thermal machine (1*, 1**, 1***) in fluid communication with one or more heat reservoirs (21; 31), wherein the regenerative thermal machine (1, 1**, 1***) comprises working fluid compression (12) and expansion (11) spaces; an...