US Patent Issued to YANMAR HOLDINGS on Sept. 30 for "Fuel cell ship" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,118, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to YANMAR HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Fuel cell ship" was invented by Takehiro Maruyama (Osaka, Japan), Yasuyoshi Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan), Takuya Hiraiwa (Osaka, Japan), Manabu Shinagawa (Osaka, Japan) and Yukihiko Kimura (Kunisaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary fuel cell ship is a fuel cell ship for propelling a hull by using electric power supplied from a fuel cell that generates electric power through an electrochemical reaction of fuel, and includes a plurality of compartments including an emission source of the fuel, in which the plurality of compartments include...