US Patent Issued to Gaztransport Et Technigaz on Jan. 27 for "Descaling device for a tank for transporting/storing a gas in the liquid state" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,750, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Gaztransport Et Technigaz (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France).

"Descaling device for a tank for transporting/storing a gas in the liquid state" was invented by Michael Bidenbach (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France), Nicolas Laurain (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France) and Sylvain Karst (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for descaling a metallic membrane of a tank for transporting and/or storing gas in liquid form includes: a rail secured to the metallic membrane; a head projecting a laser beam to descale the metallic membrane; a support interposed between the p...