US Patent Issued to Gaztransport Et Technigaz on May 12 for "Liquefied gas storage facility comprising a polygonal load-bearing structure" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,796, issued on May 12, was assigned to Gaztransport Et Technigaz (Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, France).

"Liquefied gas storage facility comprising a polygonal load-bearing structure" was invented by Jean-Guy Rouzeau (Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, France) and Leo Coquand (Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquefied gas storage facility (1) has a load-bearing structure (10) having a bottom wall (11) and a vertical load-bearing wall (12) made up of N vertical load-bearing panels (14), and a tank comprising a bottom wall (21) and a vertical wall (22). The bottom wall (21) has a plurality of angular sectors. The co...