ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,777, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Method for disconnecting gas tank" was invented by Naoki Tomi (Kawasaki, Japan), Yoshikatsu Fujimura (Toyota, Japan), Keiichi Kaneko (Mishima, Japan), Tetsuya Tonosako (Fuji, Japan), Kei Kato (Nagakute, Japan), Tomoki Nakashima (Nagoya, Japan) and Koji Sugiura (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the first step, the gas in the first tank body is supplied to a gas consuming device through a first gas supply pipe by bringing the first gas tank into the first state. In the second step, the first gas tank is brought from the first state to the second ...