ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,989, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Caterpillar Inc. (Peoria, Ill.).
"Hybrid hydrogen fuel cell combustor power system" was invented by David Andrew Pierpont (Dunlap, Ill.) and David M. Ginter (Peoria, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell electrical power generation system is described herein. The system uses a combustor to increase the pressure and temperature of exhaust gases from a fuel cell stack of the system. The combustor uses hydrogen from a hydrogen supply to provide fuel to the combustor. The increased temperature/pressure of the exhaust gases post combustion are used to rotate a turbine, which in turn rotates ...