ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,936, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Apparatus and process for cooling pressurized gas for fueling" was invented by Harold James Rogers (Doylestown, Pa.), Joseph P. Cohen (Bethlehem, Pa.), Timothy J. Yurish (Bethlehem, Pa.), Richard Michael Fetcho (Coplay, Pa.), Chieh Liu (Bethlehem, Pa.) and Brenden Thomas Sawadski (Pennsburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and process for cooling a pressurized gas for feeding to one or more vehicle fuel tanks for fueling a vehicle can be configured so that a pressurized gas (e.g. hydrogen or natural gas) for fueling one or more ...