ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,622, issued on April 14, was assigned to Jacques Alagy (Charbonnieres-les-Bains, France).

"System and method for storing and re-releasing dihydrogen" was invented by Jacques Alagy (Charbonnieres-les-Bains, France) and Pierre Jean Louis Trambouze (Caluire-et-Cuire, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dihydrogen storage and retrieval method includes at least a step of generating (G) hydrogen by dehydrogenating hydroxyl groups of dipropylene glycol (DG) into respective carbonyl groups in order to produce a dehydrogenated substrate (SD) and gaseous dihydrogen (H2); and, a step of regenerating (R) at least a portion of the dipropylen...