ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,331, issued on July 8, was assigned to ZeroAvia Ltd. (Cirencester, Great Britain).

"Refueling system for hydrogen fuel cell-powered aircraft" was invented by Valery Miftakhov (San Carlos, Calif.) and Sergey Kiselev (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refueling system for hydrogen fuel cell-powered aircraft is disclosed. The system includes a compressor to receive a source of low temperature, high pressure hydrogen gas and compress the low temperature, high pressure hydrogen gas into a higher temperature, higher pressure hydrogen gas. A compression chamber within the compressor to receive the higher temperature, higher pressure hy...