ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,524, issued on May 5, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).

"Gas detection system and gas detection method" was invented by Kenji Motomochi (Osaka, Japan), Shinichi Yoneda (Kyoto, Japan), Satoru Ito (Hyogo, Japan) and Ken Kawai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas detection system is for detecting the remaining amount of gas in a gas tank that stores a predetermined gas. The gas detection system includes: a gas detector that detects the predetermined gas; and a shutter (e.g., a pressure detector) that is connected between the gas tank and the gas detector and opens and closes a path of the p...