US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR, Renault on May 20 for "Combustor and fuel cell system including same" (Austrian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,487, issued on May 20, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan) and Renault SAS (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Combustor and fuel cell system including same" was invented by Masahiro Usuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Susumu Maeshima (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomokatsu Himeno (Kanagawa, Japan), Vincent Lawlor (Stainz, Austria), Daniel Mair (Lannach, Austria), Robert Poeschl (Gratwein-StraBengel, Austria) and Bernd Reiter (Kainbach bei Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combustor, including: a catalyst bed portion supporting a catalyst capable of promoting a combustion reaction of fuel; a vaporizer which is arranged on the...