ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,696, issued on July 29, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Integrated fuel cell and combustion system" was invented by Richard Louis Hart (Broadalbin, N.Y.), Andrew Wickersham (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Jared Iverson (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Daniel Jason Erno (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Patrick Daniel Willson (Clifton Park, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A topping cycle fuel cell unit includes a support plate having internal flow passages that extend to combustion outlets, a first electrode layer, an electrolyte layer, and a second electrode layer. The second electrode layer is configured to be coupled to another support plate ...