ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,263, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Solid oxide fuel cell system and method of operating the same using peak shaving gas" was invented by John Fisher (San Jose, Calif.), Jayakumar Krishnadass (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Weingaertner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Laxmikant Girwalkar (Mumbai, India) and Shraddesh Malviya (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell system and method for using a peak shaving gas, the system including: a fuel inlet configured to receive fuel from a fuel source; a catalytic partial oxidation (CPOx) reactor configured to at least partially oxidize the fuel dur...