US Patent Issued to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY on June 30 for "Fuel cell re-oxidation prevention during operation stop" (New York, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,101, issued on June 30, was assigned to GE VERNOVA INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greenville, S.C.).

"Fuel cell re-oxidation prevention during operation stop" was invented by Karl J. Haltiner Jr. (Fairport, N.Y.), Qiang Liu (Columbus, Ind.), Malcolm James Grieve (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Andrew Philip Shapiro (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell system includes a hotbox configured to house a fuel cell stack, the fuel cell stack including a temperature sensor configured to detect temperature inside the fuel cell stack. The system includes a first tank including a first valve and configured to store methanol. The s...