ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,488, issued on May 20, was assigned to AVL List GmbH (Graz, Austria).

"Fuel cell system" was invented by Raphael Neubauer (Graz, Austria), Nikolaus Soukup (Hamburg, Germany), Matthias Lerch (Graz, Austria), Robert Poschl (Judendorf-Strassengel, Austria) and Julian Makinson (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a fuel cell system (10) comprising at least one fuel cell stack (11) having an anode section (12) and a cathode section (13), an ejector (14), a fuel mixture line (15) for conveying a fuel mixture-containing primary fuel and secondary fuel-from the ejector (14) to the anode section (12), a prima...