ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,095, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM(EAST CHINA) (Qingdao, China).

"SOFC or SOEC with long-life sealing interface and preparation method thereof" was invented by Wenchun Jiang (Qingdao, China), Hongxiang Zheng (Qingdao, China), Yazhou Shi (Qingdao, China), Yun Luo (Qingdao, China), Ming Song (Qingdao, China) and Xiucheng Zhang (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preparation method of an SOFC or SOEC with a long-life sealing interface is formed by allowing a sealing layer, a cell and a metal interconnector to be mutually contacted. In the present disclosure, with spinel as a coating materi...