US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil Companay, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology on Feb. 11 for "Solid oxide fuel cell systems and methods of operating solid oxide fuel cell systems" (South Korean, Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,468, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Companay (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Solid oxide fuel cell systems and methods of operating solid oxide fuel cell systems" was invented by Sai P. Katikaneni (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Joongmyeon Bae (Daejeon, South Korea), Jiwoo Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Minseok Bae (Daejeon, South Korea) and Dongyeon Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a solid oxide fuel cell system may comprise contacting a cathode gas comprising oxygen with a heating element to produce a hea...