ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,065, issued on May 27, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Method and system for controlling production and storage of industrial gases" was invented by Zhong-Xiang Zhu (Macungie, Pa.), David M. Espie (Lansdale, Pa.) and Graeme Richard Wilson (Surrey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial gas production plant operable to produce a feedstock gas at a variable production rate for supply to the downstream process; and a gas storage resource operable to store produced feedstock gas, the method comprising: determining the pressure of feedstock gas in a supply feed line to the downstream ...