US Patent Issued to Airbus on March 17 for "Hydrogen tank provided with a gaseous hydrogen capture system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,060, issued on March 17, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blaganc, France).

"Hydrogen tank provided with a gaseous hydrogen capture system" was invented by Caroline Petiot (Blagnac, France) and Stephane Bechtel (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogen tank, preferably a tank for storing liquid hydrogen at low pressure in cryogenic condition, includes at least one gaseous hydrogen capture system. The system is provided with absorbent fillers configured to capture the gaseous hydrogen, the absorbent fillers being linked to at least a part of a wall of the tank, and/or to a skin arranged on an outer face of the tank, and/o...