ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,909, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Gaseous fuel storage system for vehicles" was invented by Arnold Stadtler (Cologne, Germany), Ralf Schmierer (Cologne, Germany), Frank P Gerhorst (Cologne, Germany), Kathrin Lena Maria Giefer (Langenfeld, Germany), Seonhi Ro (Borssum, Germany) and Christian Leiteritz (Cologne, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system for reversibly storing and releasing a gas such as hydrogen includes storage elements each having a storage volume with a storage material such as a metal-organic framework (MOF) for reversibly adsorbing or physiosorbing...