US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on Dec. 2 for "Fluid compression apparatus and method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,835, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude (Paris).

"Fluid compression apparatus and method" was invented by Youssef Abdo (Jouy-en-Josas, France) and Gaetan Coleiro (Sassenage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a fluid compression apparatus comprising a sealed enclosure intended to contain a bath of cryogenic fluid, a first and a second compression chambers, an intake system for admission into the first chamber, a system for transfer from the first to the second chamber, the apparatus further comprising a communicating dis...