ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,254, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Emergency power fuel cell with evaporative cooling" was invented by Robert M. Darling (South Windsor, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for fuel cell systems, assemblies and methods. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for emergency power fuel cell systems, assemblies and methods (e.g., for aircraft or the like), with the fuel cells having indirect evaporative cooling. The present disclosure provides that a liquid-air heat exchanger that exchanges heat carried by hot coolant from a fuel cell with amb...