US Patent Issued to BLOOM ENERGY on Sept. 8 for "Fuel cell interconnect alloyed with transition metal element and method of making thereof" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,795, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fuel cell interconnect alloyed with transition metal element and method of making thereof" was invented by Vijay Radhakrishnan (Mumbai, India), Tad Armstrong (San Jose, Calif.) and Mosur K. Premkumar (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making an interconnect for a fuel cell stack includes compressing an interconnect powder to form an interconnect, the interconnect power containing Cr, Fe and at least one transition metal selected from Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, or V pre-alloyed with at least one of the Cr and the Fe, and sintering the interconn...