Patents Assigned to Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
  • Patent number: 11939525
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a first phase that includes a perovskite and a second phase that includes a salt, a polymer, and a switching molecule, where the first phase and the second phase are in physical contact, and the composition is capable of reversibly switching between a substantially opaque state and a substantially transparent state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Anthony Rosales, Lance Michael Wheeler
  • Patent number: 11902318
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a cyber-security system that includes a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) network monitor configured to receive a data set from a power system network, an event manager, and a mitigation system, where the SCADA network monitor includes an anomaly detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Eli Rivera, Vivek Kumar Singh, Evan Vladislav Michael Vaughan, Adarsh Hasandka, Joshua Van Natta, Bruno Mauricio Salvatico
  • Patent number: 11898114
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a compound having the structure R1O—(CH2O)n—R2 and a cetane number between about 65 and about 100, where n is between 1 and 10, inclusively, R1 includes a first alkyl group, and R2 includes a second alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Ruddy, Thomas Dwight Foust, Trenton John Wilke, Anh The To, Andrew Wolf Bartling, Martha Arellano-Trevino
  • Patent number: 11870044
    Abstract: Among other things, the present disclosure relates to re-purposing used lithium-ion batteries. The present disclosure includes treating an electrode using a solvent prior to electrochemically relithiating the electrode. In some embodiments, the relithiation may be done using a roll-to-roll device, wherein the electrode may be secured on a first pin and a second pin, then it may be unwound and submerged in an electrolyte solution. Lithium ions may be inserted into the electrode using a voltage. The layer of lithium may provide lithium ions to the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Kandler Alan Smith, Shriram Santhanagopalan, Nathaniel Alexander Sunderlin, Andrew Michael Colclasure, Chunmei Ban, Xuemin Li, Judy C. Netter, Donal Patrick Finegan, Kaitlin Elizabeth Fink, Jaclyn Elizabeth Coyle
  • Patent number: 11830733
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods of utilizing nanochannels generated in the sacrificial layer of a semiconductor substrate to increase epitaxial lift-off speeds and facilitate reusability of GaAs substrates. The provided systems and methods may utilize unique nanochannel geometries to increase the surface area exposed to the etchant and further decrease etch times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: John Stanley Mangum, William Edwin Mcmahon, Emily Lowell Warren, San Theingi
  • Publication number: 20230380106
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are apparatus for a cooler device includes a manifold constructed at least partially of silicon oxide. The manifold includes an array of inlet channels and an array of outlet channels. Each inlet channel has a first depth. The array of outlet channels are interlaced with the array of inlet channels, Each outlet channel has a second depth that is larger than the first depth. Each of the array of outlet channels has a pair of sidewalls separating each outlet channel from adjacent inlet channels of the array of inlet channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The Regents of the University of California, Merced, Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Sougata Hazra, Chi Zhang, Mehdi Asheghi, Kenneth E. Goodson, Ercan M. Dede, James Palko, Sreekant Narumanchi
  • Patent number: 11819823
    Abstract: Thermo-responsive hydrogel composite (TRHC) desiccants having high adsorption capacities, fast adsorption/desorption rates, and low regeneration temperatures (Treg) compared to traditional desiccants. TRHC desiccants may be synthesized by freeze drying. The porous structures resulting from freeze drying copolymers of thermo-responsive polymers and/or hygroscopic agents may be combined with hygroscopic inorganic salts, resulting in TRHC desiccants having superior performance properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Shuang Cui, Jason David Woods, Renkun Chen, Paul William Meyer
  • Patent number: 11824497
    Abstract: A steady-state microwave conductivity method whereby a light beam is modulated to form an amplitude modulated light having a modulation frequency ?1. The method further includes producing a microwave waveform, exposing a sample to the amplitude modulated light and a first portion of the microwave waveform to produce an amplitude modulation signal on the first portion of the microwave waveform, and mixing a second portion of the microwave waveform and the amplitude modulation signal to produce a first signal and a second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, The Regents of the University of Colorado
    Inventors: Bryon William Larson, Obadiah G. Reid
  • Patent number: 11820876
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for making a non-isocyanate polyurethane (NIPU) foam, where the method includes decomposing a blowing agent having at least one of an amine carbamate salt and/or an amine bicarbonate salt to form a diamine and CO2 in the presence of a molecule comprising a plurality of cyclic carbonate functional groups and reacting the diamine with at least a portion of the cyclic carbonate functional groups to form the NIPU foam. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the reacting and the decomposing may occur at substantially the same rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Tao Dong, Philip T. Pienkos
  • Patent number: 11815060
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are flexible wave energy converters that actuate electrical generators with dynamic strain (e.g., flexing, stretching, twisting, distension) to convert wave energy to electrical energy. The flexible wave energy converter utilizes flexible electric generators embedded throughout the wave-energy converter's flexible body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Blake Craig Boren, Jochem Weber
  • Patent number: 11808523
    Abstract: Methods and devices for long-duration electricity storage using low-cost thermal energy storage and high-efficiency power cycle, are disclosed. In some embodiments it has the potential for superior long-duration, low-cost energy storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Zhiwen Ma, Patrick Gordon Davenport, Janna Martinek
  • Patent number: 11807873
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a genetically modified microbial cell that includes a first genetic modification resulting in the expression of an exogenous vanillate demethylase, such that the microbial cell is capable of metabolizing an S-lignin decomposition product and producing 2-pyrone-4,6-dicarboxylate (PDC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher W. Johnson, Allison Jean Zimont Werner, Gregg Tyler Beckham, Sandra Fabienne Notonier
  • Patent number: 11802440
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices that include a perovskite, where, when a first condition is met, at least a portion of the perovskite is in a first phase that substantially transmits light, when a second condition is met, at least a portion of the perovskite is in a second phase that substantially absorbs light, and the perovskite is reversibly switchable between the first phase and the second phase by reversibly switching between the first condition and the second condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Lance Michael Wheeler, Joseph Matthew Luther, Jeffrey A. Christians, Joseph Jonathan Berry
  • Patent number: 11795904
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a wave energy converter that uses a flexible and inflatable chamber to absorb wave energy and convert it to electrical energy through the varying hydrostatic and hydrodynamic pressure at or below the water surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Dale Scott Jenne, Yi-Hsiang Yu
  • Patent number: 11796488
    Abstract: Methods for determining desired doping conditions for a semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube (s-SWCNT) are provided. One exemplary method includes doping each of a plurality of s-SWCNT networks under a respective set of doping conditions; determining a thermoelectric (TE) power factor as a function of a fractional bleach of an absorption spectrum for the plurality of s-SWCNT networks doped under the respective sets of doping conditions; and using the function to identify one of the TE power factors within a range of the fractional bleach of the absorption spectrum. The identified TE power factor corresponds to the desired doping conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Azure Dee Avery, Jeffrey Lee Blackburn, Andrew John Ferguson, Taylor Christie Julia Aubry-Komin
  • Patent number: 11799295
    Abstract: An example device includes a processor configured to receive a plurality of voltage values representing respective voltage magnitudes at voltage nodes in a first portion of a power system and determine, for each voltage node, a respective value of first and second voltage-constraint coefficients. The processor is also configured to receive a power value corresponding to a connection point of the first portion of the power system with a second portion of the power system and determine for the connection point, a respective value of first and second power-constraint coefficients. The processor is also configured to cause at least one energy resource connected to the first portion of the power system to modify an output power of the at least one energy resource based on the value of the first and second voltage-constraint coefficients for each voltage node and the value of the first and second power-constraint coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Universite Catholique de Louvain
    Inventors: Emiliano Dall'Anese, Andrey Bernstein, Andrea Simonetto
  • Patent number: 11787697
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes a film having a network of randomly aligned carbon nanotubes, where the carbon nanotubes have an average diameter between about 0.6 nm and about 2.0 nm and the carbon nanotubes form bundles having an average diameter between about 3 nm and about 50 nm. In addition, the composition is characterized by a power factor ?2? between 1 ?W/mK2 and about 3500 ?W/mK2 and by ZT=?2?T/k between about 0.02 and about 2.0 over a temperature range between about 100 K and about 500 K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, University of Denver
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lee Blackburn, Andrew John Ferguson, Barry Lee Zink
  • Patent number: 11786886
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), oxygen, and an element (M) that includes at least one of magnesium, cerium, and/or a transition metal, where the copper and the element are present at a first molar ratio relative to the aluminum between about 0.1:1 and about 30:1 ((Cu+M):Al), and the copper and the element are present at a second molar ratio between about 0.1:4 and about 20:1 (Cu:M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Derek Richard Vardon, Huong Thi Thanh Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11781107
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are the genetically modified Pseudomonas with improved tolerance to hydroxycinnamic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignees: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: Gregg Tyler Beckham, Christopher W. Johnson, Allison Jean Zimont Werner, Davinia Salvachúa Rodríguez, Daniel A. Jacobson, Erica Teixeira Prates, Elsayed Tharwat Tolba Mohamed, Adam Michael Feist
  • Patent number: 11777047
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a photovoltaic (PV) device that includes a first junction constructed with a first alloy and having a bandgap between about 1.0 eV and about 1.5 eV, and a second junction constructed with a second alloy and having a bandgap between about 0.9 eV and about 1.3 eV, where the first alloy includes III-V elements, the second alloy includes III-V elements, and the PV device is configured to operate in a thermophotovoltaic system having an operating temperature between about 1500° C. and about 3000° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Myles Aaron Steiner, Daniel Joseph Friedman, Ryan Matthew France, Asegun Henry