ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,603, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method and device for manufacturing high-pressure tank liner" was invented by Takaharu Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method for a high-pressure tank liner achieves a good welding quality between a pair of liner halves without removing burrs in advance before welding together the liner halves, includes steps of: arranging the pair of liner halves to face each other; adjusting parallelism between end surfaces of the liner halves; and welding the end surfaces of the liner halves together to integrate them, wherein the step of adjusting th...