US Patent Issued to BLOOM ENERGY on Oct. 7 for "Fuel cell stack grounding through an impedance creating element" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,168, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fuel cell stack grounding through an impedance creating element" was invented by Prasad Pmsvvsv (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Arne Ballantine (Palo Alto, Calif.), Adil A. Ashary (San Jose, Calif.), David Edmonston (Soquel, Calif.), Michael Petrucha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tad Armstrong (Burlingame, Calif.) and Matthias Gottmann (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell system includes a plurality of fuel cell segments, each segment having a plurality of fuel cells. The segments include a positive terminal having a positive voltage with respect to ...