ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,887, issued on April 15, was assigned to Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Cologne, Germany).

"Method for storing an inorganic salt, and storage device" was invented by Alexander Bonk (Pforzheim, Germany), Markus Braun (Karlsruhe, Germany), Jochen Forstner (Simmozheim, Germany), Veronika Sotz (Cologne, Germany) and Thomas Bauer (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for storing an inorganic salt, wherein the inorganic salt has a long service life, and the stability of a salt melt made of the inorganic salt is increased. This is achieved in that the inorganic salt is provided in a liquid state, wherein ...