US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on July 22 for "Method of operating a cold cryogenic liquid supply chain" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,330, issued on July 22, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Method of operating a cold cryogenic liquid supply chain" was invented by Joshua Light (Houston), Jerry Hayes (Houston), Laurent Allidieres (Paris), Thomas Fayer (Sassenage, France) and Cyril Benistand-Hector (Sassenage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryogen storage vessel at an installation is filled with liquid cryogen from a liquid cryogen storage tank that has a pressure lower than that of the vessel. After headspaces of the vessel and tank are placed in fluid communication with anot...