US Patent Issued to L'Air Liquide Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude on Feb. 17 for "Fluid compression apparatus and method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,421, issued on Feb. 17, 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), Gaetan Coleiro (Sassenage, France) and Cyril Benistand-Hector (Sassenage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a fluid compression apparatus and method comprising first and second compression chambers, an intake system into the first chamber, a transfer system from the first chamber to the second chamber, a piston for ensuring the compression of the fluid in the first and second ...