US Patent Issued to ZEROAVIA on Jan. 20 for "Air-cooled fuel cell stacks integrated into aircraft wings" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,253, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ZEROAVIA INC. (Hollister, Calif.).

"Air-cooled fuel cell stacks integrated into aircraft wings" was invented by Jonathan Leopold Nutzati Fontaine (Hollister, Calif.), Jose Rodrigues (Hollister, Calif.), Bradley Clark Riordan (Hollister, Calif.) and Valery Miftakhov (Hollister, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel-cell-powered aircraft system has integrated air-cooled fuel cell stacks positioned within an interior space of at least one wing of an aircraft. An airflow path is positioned in contact with at least a heat exchanger of the fuel cell stack. The induced flow of air through the a...