US Patent Issued to BLOOM ENERGY on Aug. 5 for "Methods and devices for preventing thermally-induced stress cracks in large footprint solid oxide fuel cell columns" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,232, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for preventing thermally-induced stress cracks in large footprint solid oxide fuel cell columns" was invented by Michael Gasda (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sachin Parhar (Mumbai, India), Cheng-Yu Lin (Cupertino, Calif.), Victor Fung (Daly City, Calif.), Amit Nawathe (Mumbai, India), Brian Therault (San Jose, Calif.) and Manoj Pillai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making an interconnect for an electrochemical cell stack includes providing the interconnect, and creep flattening the interconnect prior to placing the in...