Patents by Inventor William Thomas Vaughan

William Thomas Vaughan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • District Energy Sharing System
    Publication number: 20120279681
    Abstract: A district energy sharing system (DESS) comprises a thermal energy circuit which circulates and stores thermal energy in water, at least one client building thermally coupled to the circuit and which removes some thermal energy from the circuit (“thermal sink”) and/or deposits some thermal energy into the circuit (“thermal source”), and at least one thermal server plant that can be thermally coupled to external thermal sources and/or sinks (e.g. a geothermal ground source) and whose function is to maintain thermal balance within the DESS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: DEC Design Mechanical Consultants Ltd.
    Inventors: William Thomas Vaughan, Erik Dean Lindquist