ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,490, issued on May 20, was assigned to Aerostack GmbH (Dettingen an der Erms, Germany).
"Water-based, combined cooling and humidification system for a fuel cell system" was invented by Robert Alink (Dettingen an der Ems, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined cooling and humidifying system for a fuel cell system includes a first line strand, second line strand, gas separator, and water feed device. The first line strand has a supply line for feeding water to a heat exchanger of the fuel cell system and a return line for receiving a water-steam mixture from the fuel cell system. The gas separator is in the return line to at...