US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Nov. 4 for "Cold energy recovery facility and marine vessel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,860, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Cold energy recovery facility and marine vessel" was invented by Toshimitsu Tanaka (Tokyo) and Ryo Takata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cold energy recovery facility includes a liquid hydrogen tank configured to store liquid hydrogen a first circuit configured to circulate a first working medium, a second circuit configured to circulate a second working medium having a freezing point higher than the first working medium, a first turboexpander provided in the first circuit, the first turboexpander being configured to be driven by the first worki...