US Patent Issued to China Merchants Marine Offshore Research Inst., China Merchants Deepsea Research Inst. (Sanya), China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu), China Merchants Heavy Industry (Shenzhen) on April 22 for "Floating dockable liquefied natural gas supply station" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,858, issued on April 22, was assigned to China Merchants Marine Offshore Research Inst. Co. (Shenzhen, China), China Merchants Deepsea Research Inst. (Sanya) Co. (Hainan, China), China Merchants Heavy Industry (Jiangsu) Co. Ltd. (Jiangsu, China) and China Merchants Heavy Industry (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Floating dockable liquefied natural gas supply station" was invented by Lixin Xu (Nantong, China), Yuan Yuan (Nantong, China), Hejing Liu (Nantong, China), Hui Cao (Nantong, China) and Jiancheng Liu (Nantong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating dockable liquefied natural gas supply station, comprising: a mai...