US Patent Issued to First Ammonia Motors on March 24 for "Systems and methods for sequential energization of heating elements in an electric ammonia cracking unit" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,957, issued on March 24, was assigned to First Ammonia Motors Inc. (Concord, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for sequential energization of heating elements in an electric ammonia cracking unit" was invented by James L. Wall II (Concord, N.C.) and David Gwynn Kapp Jr. (Concord, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates, in general, to a system and method for sequentially energizing heating elements in an electric cracking unit for ammonia dissociation on-board a vehicle. The present invention utilizes output temperature readings at various sections within the electric catalyst unit, and sequentially energizes cor...