US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations, Airbus Operations on July 28 for "Fuel cell system and method for generating inert gas for a fuel cell system" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,106, issued on July 28, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) and Airbus Operations SAS (Toulouse, France).

"Fuel cell system and method for generating inert gas for a fuel cell system" was invented by Janik Fernandez Garcia (Toulouse, France) and Nikolaus Soukup (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell unit in a housing and comprising an anode part and a cathode part, a hydrogen source for supplying hydrogen to the fuel cell unit, an air supply unit for supplying air to the fuel cell unit, and a catalytic converter for catalytically converting oxygen and hydrogen t...