ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,602, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Hydrogen power system" was invented by Hiroya Nagata (Toyota, Japan), Yoshifumi Kawakami (Toyota, Japan), Ryosuke Yamamoto (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Tomohiro Nakano (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogen power system includes a hydrogen engine that operates using hydrogen as an energy source, a hydrogen tank that stores liquid hydrogen, and a hydrogen pump that pumps up the liquid hydrogen from the hydrogen tank and outputs it to the hydrogen engine, A hydrogen pump, a part of which slides within the hydrogen tank, and a controller, and the c...