ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,151, issued on June 24, was assigned to NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Planar solid electrolyte oxygen separator" was invented by Sea-Fue Wang (Taipei, Taiwan), Jeng-Ting Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsi-Chuan Lu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planar solid electrolyte oxygen separator includes a first end plate formed with an oxygen outlet, a second end plate, two solid electrolyte cells disposed between the first and second end plates, and a planar interconnector disposed between the solid electrolyte cells. Each of the solid electrolyte cells includes two electrode layers, a metal-oxide-b...