US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on June 3 for "Facility and method for hydrogen refrigeration" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,586, issued on June 3, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Facility and method for hydrogen refrigeration" was invented by Patrick Le Bot (Les Loges-en-Josas, France), Marine Andrich (Les Loges-en-Josas, France) and Nicolas Kofman (Les Loges-en-Josas, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facility and method for hydrogen refrigeration, comprising a hydrogen circuit to be cooled, comprising:-a first and a second set of heat exchanger(s) arranged in series for exchanging heat with the hydrogen circuit to be cooled;-a first cooling device for exchanging heat w...