US Patent Issued on July 29 for "Systems and methods for cooling hydrogen fuel generated on-board prior to injection into an internal combustion engine" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,319, issued on July 29.

"Systems and methods for cooling hydrogen fuel generated on-board prior to injection into an internal combustion engine" was invented by James L. Wall II (Concord, N.C.) and David Gwynn Kapp Jr. (Concord, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates, in general, to systems and methods for generating hydrogen from ammonia on-board vehicles, where the produced hydrogen is used as fuel source for an internal combustion engine. The present invention utilizes an electric catalyst unit operating in series with a heat exchange catalyst unit. The electric catalyst unit is used to initiate an ammon...