ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,732, issued on April 22, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reactant feed and return assembly for fuel cell stacks including a nozzle structure" was invented by Annamalai Raman (Bangalore, India), Karanpal Bhangu (Manteca, Calif.), Victor Fung (Daly City, Calif.), Nilanjana Basu (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Petrucha (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a reactant feed and return assembly, such as an anode splitter plate (ASP), are provided for facilitating reactant feed flow in a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stack system. Embodiments include a reactant feed and return assemb...