US Patent Issued to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING on July 14 for "Desulfurization using a molten carbonate fuel cell" (New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,179, issued on July 14, was assigned to EXXONMOBIL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING COMPANY (Spring, Texas).

"Desulfurization using a molten carbonate fuel cell" was invented by Fan He (Annandale, N.J.), Lu Han (Beaumont, Texas), Jonathan Rosen (Morristown, N.J.) and Timothy A. Barckholtz (Whitehouse Station, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for maintaining and/or improving operating lifetime for molten carbonate fuel cells that contain reforming catalyst in the anode when processing cathode input flows that contain sulfur oxides. The systems and methods can include a serial arrangement of molten carbona...