US Patent Issued to Sapphire Technologies on Jan. 28 for "Hydrogen applications for turboexpander machines" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,214, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Sapphire Technologies Inc. (Cerritos, Calif.).

"Hydrogen applications for turboexpander machines" was invented by Jeffrey Earl (Hermosa Beach, Calif.), Freddie Sarhan (Anaheim, Calif.) and Jeremy Liu (Norwalk, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an electric generator that includes a fluid inlet configured to receive hydrogen at a first pressure, a turbine wheel configured to expand the hydrogen and rotate in response to expansion of the hydrogen flowing into an inlet of the turbine wheel and out of the outlet of the turbine wheel, a rotor coupled to the turbine wheel and...