US Patent Issued to United Launch Alliance on April 8 for "Methods and systems to determine liquid natural gas (LNG) composition and density" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,514, issued on April 8, was assigned to United Launch Alliance LLC (Centennial, Colo.).

"Methods and systems to determine liquid natural gas (LNG) composition and density" was invented by John Pieter Van Pelt (Lakwood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to controlling the fueling process for a space launch vehicle based on a composition of a Liquefied (LNG) propellant being loaded onto the space launch vehicle. According to one embodiment, controlling a fueling process for a launch vehicle can comprise monitoring a flow of a fuel being loaded into a tank of the launch vehicle during the fue...