ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,452, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to POSCO (Pohang-si, South Korea).
"LNG storage tank and ship having thereof" was invented by Sang-Hun Son (Gangnam-gu, South Korea), Myung-Hyun Noh (Incheon, South Korea) and Eung-Soo Kim (Incheon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquefied gas storage tank according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a tank unit in which liquefied gas is stored; an inner box unit disposed inside the tank unit and installed at the bottom portion of the tank unit; and a pump unit that has an inlet pipe part formed to pass through a lower wall portion of the inner box unit and commu...