US Patent Issued to BLOOM ENERGY on May 27 for "Solid oxide fuel cell system containing low temperature oxidizer and method of operating same with reduced carbon monoxide output" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,972, issued on May 27, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Solid oxide fuel cell system containing low temperature oxidizer and method of operating same with reduced carbon monoxide output" was invented by Srikanth Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.) and Victor Silva (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack configured to generate electricity, an anode exhaust and a cathode exhaust, an anode tail gas oxidizer (ATO) configured to oxidize the anode exhaust using the cathode exhaust, and a low-temperature oxidizer (LTO) configured to catalyze oxidation of carbon monoxid...