ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,301, issued on April 14, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo) and TreadStone Technologies Inc. (Princeton, N.J.).

"Component for solid oxide fuel cell" was invented by Muhammad Febry (Tokyo), Takayoshi Yano (Tokyo), Tetsuyuki Nakamura (Tokyo), Akito Mizutani (Tokyo), Masataka Yoshino (Tokyo), Reiko Sugihara (Tokyo) and Conghua Wang (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a component for solid oxide fuel cells that is excellent in both electrical conductivity and chromium poisoning resistance. As a substrate, a ferritic stainless steel having a chemical composition containing, in mass %, Cr: 14.0% to 32.0% ...