US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Hydrogen fuel tank mounting system" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,554, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Hydrogen fuel tank mounting system" was invented by Khizer Tufail (London), Guenter Grosch (VettweiB, Germany), Krystian Dylong (Cologne, Germany), Rainer Kiehn (Frechen, Germany), Klaus-Peter Heinig (Aachen, Germany), Mauro Giroldo (Brentwood, Great Britain) and Bert Hobein (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogen fuel tank mounting system for a vehicle comprises a first mount for mounting a first portion of the fuel tank in a fixed position and a second mount for slidably mounting a second portion of the fuel tank. In this manne...