ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,059, issued on March 17, was assigned to The Lisbon Group LLC (Mercer Island, Wash.).

"Enhanced gas storage and sendout resiliency with co-located LNG and underground gas storage facilities" was invented by Michael A. Barclay (Issaquah, Wash.), M. Josue Zapata (Mercer Island, Wash.) and John A. Barclay (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, plants, and methods are presented that make use of natural gas compression capability and various other components of an existing underground natural gas storage (UGS) facility by co-locating a liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and storage facility to increase natural gas st...