US Patent Issued to BLOOM ENERGY on April 14 for "Hydrogen pumping proton exchange membrane electrochemical cell with carbon monoxide tolerant anode and method of making thereof" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,315, issued on April 14, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hydrogen pumping proton exchange membrane electrochemical cell with carbon monoxide tolerant anode and method of making thereof" was invented by Vijay Radhakrishnan (Mumbai, India), Srikanth Ranganathan (San Jose, Calif.) and M.K. Premkumar (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbon monoxide (CO) tolerant membrane electrode assembly (MEA) includes an ionically-conductive proton exchange membrane, an anode contacting a first side of the membrane and including a hydrophobic bonding agent, an ionomer bonding agent, first catalyst particles, sec...