US Patent Issued to BWR Innovations on Feb. 17 for "Distributed hydrogen energy system and method" (North Dakota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,575, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BWR Innovations LLC (West Fargo, N.D.).

"Distributed hydrogen energy system and method" was invented by Joel A. Jorgenson (Fargo, N.D.) and Thomas W. Nelson (Fargo, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed hydrogen energy system adds onto existing infrastructure of a localized renewable energy microgrid and utilizes excess generated energy to power an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen gas on site that is compressed and stored in a stationary pressure vessel. The stored hydrogen gas can be used directly within the local renewable energy microgrid wherein the stored hydrogen gas is conver...