ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,036, issued on Sept. 16.
"Oxygen-fed fuel cell system and method of using same" was invented by Paul H Matter (Columbus, Ohio), Minette C Ocampo (Columbus, Ohio), Travis M Hery (Hilliard, Ohio) and Christopher T Holt (Bexley, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell system includes hydrogen and oxygen storage vessels, a fuel cell stack, an air feed, an oxygen feed creating an internal oxygen pressure, at least one cathode and at least one cathode exhaust. The system can alternate between the air feed and/or the oxygen feed to the cathode of the fuel cell with air operation at lower power draw conditions and oxygen operation a...