ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,571, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Hyogo, Japan) and TB GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Tokyo).

"Emergency release mechanism of fluid loading equipment" was invented by Tomonori Takase (Kobe, Japan), Akihiko Inomata (Kobe, Japan), Tsutomu Kawai (Nagaoka, Japan) and Yuma Yoshihara (Nagaoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency release mechanism is applied to fluid loading equipment for transporting fluid, and includes: a pair of pipe portions having a vacuum double structure in each of which a flow path for transporting the fluid is formed, the pair of pipe portions being arranged with opening ends ab...