ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,965, issued on March 3, was assigned to Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France) and Airbus Operations Ltd. (Filton Bristol, Great Britain).

"Hydrogen supply device comprising a hydrogen tank as well as equipment items distributed in at least one container connected to the tank and at least one removable container" was invented by Frederic Sick (Toulouse, France), Julien Laverne (Toulouse, France), Thomas Wesoly (Labege, France) and Nicholas West (Filton Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hydrogen supply device including at least one hydrogen tank, at least one hydrogen circuit and at least one upstream container...