ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,100, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fuel cell system including catalyst ring anode tail gas oxidizer" was invented by Michael Petrucha (Santa Clara, Calif.), John Fisher (Spokane, Wash.), Nilanjana Basu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Martin Perry (Mountain View, Calif.), Srikanth Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.) and Victor Silva (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell system anode tail gas oxidizer (ATO) includes an inner ATO wall, an outer ATO wall, and a first catalyst ring disposed in a chamber formed between the inner ATO wall and the outer ATO wall. The first catalyst ring includes an...