US Patent Issued to H2 PowerTech on April 22 for "Hydrogen-producing fuel cell systems and methods of operating the same" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,727, issued on April 22, was assigned to H2 PowerTech LLC (Bend, Ore.).

"Hydrogen-producing fuel cell systems and methods of operating the same" was invented by Michael Tyler Hicks (Bend, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hydrogen-producing fuel cell systems and methods of operating the same. The methods include initiating supply of a stored hydrogen stream, which includes stored hydrogen gas, to a fuel cell stack. Prior to the initiating, the stored hydrogen gas is stored in a low-pressure hydrogen storage tank at a hydrogen storage pressure. The methods also include generating an electrical power output from the stored hydrogen ga...