ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,390, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to AVL List GmbH (Graz, Austria).
"Method for heating a fuel cell system and fuel cell system" was invented by Nikolaus Soukup (Hamburg, Germany), Martin Hauth (Graz, Austria), Michael Seidl (Graz, Austria) and Stefan Weissensteiner (Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for heating a fuel cell system (1a; 1b; 1c; 1d) comprising at least one fuel cell stack (2) with an anode portion (3) and a cathode portion (4), and a reformer (5) upstream of the anode portion (3) for steam reforming using a fuel, the reformer (5) comprising a nickel-based catalyst, ...