US Patent Issued to TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY on May 20 for "Integrated solid oxide fuel cell combustor assembly, system, and method thereof" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,491, issued on May 20, was assigned to TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Cookeville, Tenn.).

"Integrated solid oxide fuel cell combustor assembly, system, and method thereof" was invented by Rory Roberts (Cookeville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solid oxide fuel cell with combustor (SOFC-C) addresses the problems of fast start-up, high gravimetric power density and emission control facing SOFC in aerospace and other mobile vehicle applications by providing a highly efficient clean power generation for full or partial hybrid propulsion systems. The SOFC-C may include one or more SOFC tubes and a combustion chamber integr...