US Patent Issued to BLOOM ENERGY on Oct. 14 for "Fuel cell system containing catalyst based fuel contamination sensor and method of operating thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,761, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fuel cell system containing catalyst based fuel contamination sensor and method of operating thereof" was invented by Laxmikant Girwalkar (San Jose, Calif.), Aniket Pratap (San Jose, Calif.), David Weingaertner (San Jose, Calif.) and Srikanth Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a fuel cell system is provided. The method includes controlling a provision of fuel to the fuel cell system operating in a steady-state mode. The catalyst sensor is operated by providing a portion of the fuel and anode exhaust generat...