US Patent Issued to AVL List on July 29 for "Protective reformer device for the protection of an anode section of a fuel cell stack" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,708, issued on July 29, was assigned to AVL List GmbH (Graz, Austria).

"Protective reformer device for the protection of an anode section of a fuel cell stack" was invented by Raphael Neubauer (Graz, Austria) and Thomas Strasser-Krauss (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a protective reformer device (10) for the protection of an anode section (112) of a fuel cell stack (110) against oxidizing damage during a heating-up process, having a gas duct (20) with a gas inlet (22) and a gas outlet (24) for conducting fuel gas from an anode feed section (120) of the fuel cell stack (110), wherein a ca...