ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,398, issued on April 1, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Solid oxide electrolyzer system including air bypass" was invented by Alejandro Carlos Lavernia (San Jose, Calif.), Kidus Tsegay (San Jose, Calif.), Navaneethakrishnan Govindarasu (San Jose, Calif.), Mark Stanton (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andy Ta (San Jose, Calif.) and David Edmonston (Soquel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolyzer system includes a splitter configured to split a first air inlet stream into a bypass air stream and a second air inlet stream, a stack of electrolyzer cells configured receive steam and the second air inlet stream ...