US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 11 for "Hydrogen filling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,700, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Hydrogen filling method" was invented by Osamu Sawai (Okazaki, Japan), Chiaki Kataoka (Nagakute, Japan), Koji Sugiura (Toyota, Japan) and Tomoki Nakashima (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of filling a tank with hydrogen includes: a step of attaching a filling tank to a filling device; and a step of controlling hydrogen filling from the filling device to the filling tank based on a temperature sensor provided in a dummy tank."

The patent was filed on May 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/315,277.

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