ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,752, issued on July 28, was assigned to NEOEx Systems Inc. (Amherst, Ohio).

"Direct liquefaction for vehicle refueling" was invented by Mark S. Haberbusch (Amherst, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refueling system may include an inlet tube that fluidly connects to a container containing gaseous hydrogen, a cryocooler including a cold tip and a cold head, the cold tip driven to a hydrogen liquefaction temperature by the cold head, a condensation chamber fluidly connected to the inlet tube to receive the gaseous hydrogen and thermally connected to the cryocooler cold tip, a catalyst disposed in the condensation chamber and that c...