US Patent Issued to Voestalpine Stahl on March 17 for "Device for storing or guiding hydrogen and process for the preparation thereof" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,615, issued on March 17, was assigned to Voestalpine Stahl GmbH (Linz, Austria).

"Device for storing or guiding hydrogen and process for the preparation thereof" was invented by Christoph Etzlstorfer (Grunbach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device for storing or conducting hydrogen, in particular a hydrogen tank or hydrogen line, wherein the device is constructed in multiple layers from an inner side oriented toward the hydrogen to an outer side, wherein a layer located further inside has a lower diffusion coefficient (D) for hydrogen than the respective subsequent layer Dinsidegreater tha...