US Patent Issued to Sapphire Technologies on July 29 for "Hydrogen production using electrical power generated by gas pressure letdown" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,960, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sapphire Technologies Inc. (Cerritos, Calif.).

"Hydrogen production using electrical power generated by gas pressure letdown" 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: "A system includes a flow-through electric generator and an electrolytic cell. The flow-through electric generator includes a turbine wheel, a rotor, and a stator. The turbine wheel is configured to receive natural gas from a natural gas pipeline and rotate in response to expansion of the natural gas flowing into an inlet of...