US Patent Issued to H2C SAFETY PIPE on Sept. 8 for "Hydrogen transport, distribution and storage system, method and apparatus" (Hawaii, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,814, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to H2C SAFETY PIPE INC. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"Hydrogen transport, distribution and storage system, method and apparatus" was invented by James M. Ewan (Kaneohe, Hawaii), Robert H. Shelton (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Rinaldo S. Brutoco (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system uses existing pipelines, e.g., natural gas, oil, etc., to transport hydrogen to one or more distribution points. The disclosed hydrogen distribution system enables use of water, sewer, storm drain and other existing pipelines for local distribution. Hydrogen is produced from an energy source at a prod...