ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,836, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Wuhan University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China).
"Phase change thermal storage ceramic and preparation method thereof" was invented by Meijie Zhang (Wuhan, China), Cangjuan Han (Wuhan, China), Huazhi Gu (Wuhan, China), Ao Huang (Wuhan, China) and Lvping Fu (Wuhan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a phase change thermal storage ceramic having high service temperature and improved utilization rate and utilization efficiency of heat. It is prepared at a low cost with a simple, easy-to-industrially-realized method. A mixture is obtained by mixing and stirring...