US Patent Issued to Noble Gas Systems on March 25 for "Thermal management in conformable tanks" (Michigan, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,090, issued on March 25, was assigned to Noble Gas Systems Inc. (Wixom, Mich.).

"Thermal management in conformable tanks" was invented by Christopher T. Kondogiani (Novi, Mich.), Somesh J. Rath (Indianapolis) and Mallory Marie Barrett (Milford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conformable pressure vessel including pressure vessel segments defined by a cavity disposed within a liner. The pressure vessel segments receive and store a gas in a compressed state. Each of the pressure vessel segments includes a first section of the liner having a first diameter and a second section of the liner having a second diameter smaller than t...