ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,823, issued on May 13, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Catalyst ink compositions and methods for forming hydrogen pumping proton exchange membrane electrochemical cell" was invented by Srikanth Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.), Vijay Radhakrishnan (San Jose, Calif.) and Vaibhav Nirgude (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A membrane electrode assembly (MEA) includes an ionically-conductive proton exchange membrane, an anode contacting a first side of the membrane and a cathode contacting a second side of the membrane and including third catalyst particles and a cathode GDL. The anode includes an anod...