US Patent Issued to YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA on Dec. 30 for "Method for operating an SOFC for the combined production of electricity and nitric oxide" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,498, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA (Oslo, Norway).

"Method for operating an SOFC for the combined production of electricity and nitric oxide" was invented by David Waller (Porsgrunn, Norway), Egil Rasten (Porsgrunn, Norway) and Yngve Larring (Langhus, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the combined production of electricity and nitric oxide, comprising the steps of: providing an SOFC comprising an anodic side comprising a solid gas-permeable anode, a gas inlet and a gas outlet, a cathodic side comprising a solid gas-permeable cathode and a gas inlet and a gas outlet, and a fully dense solid...