US Patent Issued to Google on May 5 for "Hydrogen fueling and storage optimization model" (California, Georgia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,521, issued on May 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hydrogen fueling and storage optimization model" was invented by Dhruv Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Hariharan Subramanian (Everett, Wash.), Priya Chhiba (Atlanta) and Varun Sakalkar (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an optimization model for storing liquid hydrogen to power fuel cells in data centers. The optimization model can be based on hydrogen fuel consumption rates in the data center, refueling rates from vendors, refueling response time, storage tank area constraints in the data center, and/or logi...