ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,164, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Environmental control system having a fuel cell assembly" was invented by Honggang Wang (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An environmental control system assembly is provided for an aircraft. The assembly includes: an environmental control system; a cabin airflow delivery system in airflow communication with the environmental control system for receiving a cabin inlet airflow from the environmental control system; a cabin exhaust delivery system configured to be in airflow communication with a cabin of the aircraft for receiving a cabin...