ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,709, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NFE Patent Holdings LLC (New York).

"Methods of monitoring and controlling liquid natural gas (LNG) tanks aboard a marine vessel" was invented by Ossama Abdalla (Miami), Pedro Pereira (Miami) and Captain Mark Lane (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of, and control systems for, operating modular, liquid natural gas (LNG) manifold apparatuses, crossover systems for such modular manifold apparatuses, and systems including one or more of the modular manifold apparatuses and a plurality of ISO tank containers. The modular manifold apparatus includes an ISO container (e.g., an open-frame ISO...