ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,377, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Fuel cell based microgrid" was invented by Carl Cottuli (San Jose, Calif.), Prasad Pmsvvsv (San Jose, Calif.), Ranganathan Gurunathan (San Jose, Calif.), Beau Baker (San Jose, Calif.) and Edwin Pho (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for fuel cell based microgrid is provided. The system includes a plurality of fuel cell modules to generate DC power. The system includes a plurality of dual-mode inverters (DMIs) to convert the DC power into AC power. The system includes a plurality of DC switches to electrically connect or disconnect a f...