US Patent Issued to ACCELLERON SWITZERLAND on April 14 for "Air supply apparatus for a ship, ship including the same, and method of supplying air to an air lubrication device" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,453, issued on April 14, was assigned to ACCELLERON SWITZERLAND LTD. (Baden, Switzerland).

"Air supply apparatus for a ship, ship including the same, and method of supplying air to an air lubrication device" was invented by Jean-Francois Tissot (Bergheim, France), Jari Keinaenen (Brugg, Switzerland) and Daniel Rusch (Wettingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air supply apparatus for a ship is described. The air supply apparatus includes a fuel cell and an air lubrication device for resistance reduction of the ship. An exhaust gas outlet of the fuel cell is connected with the air lubrication device via an exhaust gas l...