ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,553, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Gaztransport Et Technigaz (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France).

"Storage facility for a liquid-state gas comprising a tank and a suction device of an insulation layer of said tank" was invented by Bernard Aoun (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France), Laurent Spittael (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France), Pierre-Emmanuel De Seze (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France) and Fabrice Lombard (Saint Remy les Chevreuse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage facility includes a tank for transporting and/or storing gas in a liquid state, the tank including at least one insulation layer, a gas-consuming devi...