ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,302, issued on April 21, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SAFETY ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Qingdao, China).

"High-pressure gas filling/unloading system" was invented by Longjun Cheng (Qingdao, China), Zhe Yang (Qingdao, China), Bin Tao (Qingdao, China), Jianzhong Zhang (Qingdao, China), Zhenzhong Wang (Qingdao, China), Wenqing Zhao (Qingdao, China), Lili Ding (Qingdao, China), Juan Liu (Qingdao, China) and Liangliang Li (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-pressure gas filling and unloading system has a high-pressure gas pipeline for connecting to a gas filling...