US Patent Issued to Indian Oil on June 17 for "Method and a device for operating PEM fuel cell with CO contaminated hydrogen gas" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,612, issued on June 17, was assigned to Indian Oil Corporation Limited (Mumbai, India).

"Method and a device for operating PEM fuel cell with CO contaminated hydrogen gas" was invented by Chinmay Chaudhari (Faridabad, India), Sachin Chugh (Faridabad, India), Meenakshi Sundarraman (Faridabad, India), Kapil Sonkar (Faridabad, India), Alok Sharma (Faridabad, India), Gurpreet Singh Kapur (Faridabad, India) and Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar (Faridabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for purifying impure hydrogen fuel is described that includes a first chamber and a second chamber. The first chamber is configured to rece...