ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,699, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Modern Hydrogen Inc. (Bothall, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for local generation and/or consumption of hydrogen gas" was invented by Justin B. Ashton (Palo Alto, Calif.), Roelof E. Groenewald (Bothell, Wash.), Kevin J. Hughes (Knoxville, Tenn.), Arvind Kannan (Kirkland, Wash.), William Kokonaski (Edmonds, Wash.), Max N. Mankin (Seattle), Tony S. Pan (Bothell, Wash.), Lowell L Wood (Bellevue, Wash.), John J. Lorr (Redmond, Wash.), Amit Goyal (Hoover, Ala.), Guido Radaelli (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and Vikram Seshadri (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for producing hydrogen gas...