US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 11 for "Data center balance of plant integrated into fuel cell system design" (California, Nevada, Georgia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,861, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Data center balance of plant integrated into fuel cell system design" was invented by Priya Chhiba (Atlanta), Thomas Kowalski (Ben Lomond, Calif.), Varun Sakalkar (Redwood City, Calif.), Angad Sandhu (Reno, Nev.) and Hariharan Subramanian (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy system may include data center computer equipment, a data center power system configured to simultaneously provide power for operation of the data center equipment and power for cooling the data center equipment, fuel cells configured to provide power to the data cent...