ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,841, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Government of the United States, represented by the Secretary of the Army (Washington).

"Fuel endothermic reaction to cool a load" was invented by Michael Seibert (Bel Air, Md.), Richard Scenna (Baltimore) and Terry DuBois (Forest Hill, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments that pertain to fuel processing are described. A fuel processor can produce an endothermic reaction that cools a substance and produces a processed fuel from a raw fuel. A generator can employ the processed fuel to produce an electricity. The generator can supply the electricity to a load that uses the e...