US Patent Issued to Gaztransport Et Technigaz on Nov. 4 for "Liquefied gas storage facility having a polygonal load-bearing structure" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,772, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Gaztransport Et Technigaz (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France).

"Liquefied gas storage facility having a polygonal load-bearing structure" was invented by Adnan Ezzarhouni (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France), Fabien Pesquet (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France) and Jerome Pelle (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquefied gas storage facility has a sealed and thermally-insulating tank. A bottom wall of the tank includes a plurality of angular sectors which are images of each other through rotation by a predetermined angle about a vertical axis, the predetermined angle be...