US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute, Emerald Energy NW on April 29 for "Integrated refueling station" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,904, issued on April 29, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.) and Emerald Energy NW LLC (Bothell, Wash.).

"Integrated refueling station" was invented by Jamie D. Holladay (Richland, Wash.) and John Barclay (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that includes: (a) a liquid natural gas storage tank fluidly coupled to a first compressor, (b) a fuel cell having an inlet fluidly coupled to the first compressor and an H2 gas outlet fluidly coupled to a heat exchanger, wherein the heat exchanger receives compressed liquid natural gas from the first compressor; (c) an active magnetic regenerative ref...