US Patent Issued to FuelCell Energy on March 18 for "Supported nickel catalysts used as direct internal reforming catalyst in molten carbonate fuel cells" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,367, issued on March 18, was assigned to FuelCell Energy Inc. (Danbury, Conn.).

"Supported nickel catalysts used as direct internal reforming catalyst in molten carbonate fuel cells" was invented by Jin-Yun Wang (Cheshire, Conn.), Mohammad Farooque (Marlboro, Conn.), Ramakrishnan Venkataraman (Danbury, Conn.), Chao-Yi Yuh (New Milford, Conn.) and April Corpuz (Danbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed here is a supported catalyst comprising a thermally stable core, wherein the thermally stable core comprises a metal oxide support and nickel disposed in the metal oxide support, wherein the metal oxide support comprises ...