US Patent Issued to BLOOM ENERGY on Dec. 23 for "Optimized processing of electrodes for SOFC and SOEC" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,158, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimized processing of electrodes for SOFC and SOEC" was invented by Tad Armstrong (San Jose, Calif.) and Justin Railsback (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for fabricating a solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) including sintering an electrolyte, printing a fuel-side electrode disposed on a fuel side of the electrolyte, printing an air-side electrode disposed on an air side of the electrolyte, first sintering a combination of the electrolyte, fuel-side electrode, and air-side electrode, printing a barrier layer an air side of t...