ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,962, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Gas filling method" was invented by Kiyoshi Handa (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas filling method for filling a tank with gas by supplying the gas from an accumulator to the tank through a pipe includes: a temperature separation pressure detecting step of detecting whether the pressure in the tank has reached a temperature separation pressure during filling of the tank with the gas; and a pressure rise rate increasing step of filling the tank with the gas by increasing the pressure rise rate of the pressure in the tank after the pressure in the tan...