US Patent Issued to First Ammonia Motors on July 15 for "Systems and methods for an internal combustion engine utilizing ammonia as a fuel source and as a heat-exchange medium for engine cooling" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,787, issued on July 15, was assigned to First Ammonia Motors Inc. (Concord, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for an internal combustion engine utilizing ammonia as a fuel source and as a heat-exchange medium for engine cooling" was invented by James L. Wall II (Concord, N.C.) and David Gwynn Kapp Jr. (Concord, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates, in general, to systems and methods for generating hydrogen from ammonia on-board vehicles, where the produced hydrogen is used as fuel source for an internal combustion engine along with ammonia. The present invention utilizes ammonia not only as a co-fuel for the en...