US Patent Issued to First Ammonia Motors on March 24 for "Three-dimensionally printed lattice structure for thermal energy generation" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,952, issued on March 24, was assigned to First Ammonia Motors Inc. (Concord, N.C.).

"Three-dimensionally printed lattice structure for thermal energy generation" 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 focusing gas distribution through at least one three-dimensionally (3D) printed lattice heating elements within an electric catalyst unit to promote ammonia dissociation. The present invention allows gaseous ammonia to be continuously heated under turbulence as it flows through non-linea...