US Patent Issued to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on April 1 for "Composite coating layer for hot balance of plant in solid oxide fuel cell" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,828, issued on April 1, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Composite coating layer for hot balance of plant in solid oxide fuel cell" was invented by Woochul Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Jinwook Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Donghwan Oh (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite coating layer for a solid oxide fuel cell member according to the present disclosure includes a nickel layer that coats at least a portion of the surface of the solid oxide fuel cell member, and a lanthanum oxide layer that coats at least a portion of the surface of the nickel lay...