ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,384, issued on May 26, was assigned to FCI Co. LTD. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"SOE-SOFC-CCS hybrid system" was invented by In Gab Chang (Daejeon, South Korea), Tae Won Lee (Goyang-si, South Korea), Bo Hyun Ryu (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Jun Choi (Dongan-gu, South Korea) and Myung Jun Won (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a hybrid system in which a solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOE), a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), and a carbon capture system (CCS) are coupled to each other, and more particularly to an SOE-SOFC-CCS hybrid system configured such that a solid oxide electrolyzer cell, a solid oxide fuel c...