ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,957, issued on June 24, was assigned to F2M (Naintre, France).

"Cryogenic hydrogen transfer process and system" was invented by Eric Michalski (Lesigny sur Creuse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for transferring hydrogen from a first tank wherein the hydrogen is in an initial liquid state at a pressure of the order of 10 bar to a second tank wherein the hydrogen is in a final state at a pressure greater than or equal to 500 bar. The process includes: a first pumping step of the hydrogen from the initial state thereof to an intermediate state wherein the hydrogen has a pressure greater than that of the initial state t...