US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 18 for "Integrated fuel cell and combustor assembly" (New York, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,363, issued on March 18, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Integrated fuel cell and combustor assembly" was invented by Honggang Wang (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Michael A. Benjamin (Cincinnati), Seung-Hyuck Hong (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Richard L. Hart (Broadalbin, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated fuel cell and combustor assembly includes a combustor that is fluidly coupled with at least one upstream compressor that generates compressed air. A fuel cell stack having a cathode and an anode is fluidly coupled to the combustor. The fuel cell stack is configured to receive intake fuel and a portion of t...