US Patent Issued to NUOVO PIGNONE TECNOLOGIE-S.R.L. on Aug. 11 for "Method and system for efficient hydrogen compression" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,116, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NUOVO PIGNONE TECNOLOGIE-S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).

"Method and system for efficient hydrogen compression" was invented by Emanuele Rizzo (Florence, Italy), Paola Di Festa (Florence, Italy) and Gianni Orsi (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The hydrogen compression system, comprises a source of gaseous hydrogen at a first pressure, and a mixing unit, adapted to mix hydrogen and an additional gaseous component at said first pressure, the additional gaseous component having an average molecular weight higher than hydrogen. A compression unit is adapted to compress a gaseous mixture co...