ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,996, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Wright Electric Inc. (Ballston Spa, N.Y.).
"Waste heat control for aircraft fuel cell" was invented by Jeffrey M. Engler (Ballston Spa, N.Y.), Colin Tschida (Ballston Spa, N.Y.), Kok Long Ng (Windsor, Canada) and Deven Warke (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is an aircraft having a least one of an aircraft motor or an aircraft motor drive, and a metal-air fuel cell. The aircraft has a waste heat transfer system including a diverter system. The diverter system selectively couples the metal-air fuel cell and the at least one of the aircraft motor or the aircraft m...