US Patent Issued to ArianeGroup on Sept. 2 for "Hydrogen tank, method of cooling a hydrogen tank, and vehicle having a hydrogen drive and hydrogen tank" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,974, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ArianeGroup GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany).

"Hydrogen tank, method of cooling a hydrogen tank, and vehicle having a hydrogen drive and hydrogen tank" was invented by Christian Wendt (Bremen, Germany), Armin Isselhorst (Bremen, Germany) and Martin Konopka (Bremen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogen tank having a tank structure at least partially delimiting a tank space and comprising a cooling shield formed in a lightweight construction. A conduit system, connected to the tank space, of a pressure relief system for discharging gaseous hydrogen from the tank space is formed in the coo...