US Patent Issued to General Electric on June 2 for "Suspension system for a cryogenic tank" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,565, issued on June 2, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Suspension system for a cryogenic tank" was invented by Ernst Wolfgang Stautner (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Constantinos Minas (Slingerlands, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryogenic system includes a cryogenic tank containing a liquid cryogen and a vacuum vessel surrounding the cryogenic tank and providing a vacuum space between an inner surface of the vacuum vessel and an outer surface of the cryogenic tank. The cryogenic system further includes a suspension system arranged within the vacuum space so as to support the cryogenic tank within the vacuum ves...