US Patent Issued to WATT FUEL CELL on July 7 for "Afterburners including methods of making and operating" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,325, issued on July 7, was assigned to WATT FUEL CELL CORP. (Mount Pleasant, Pa.).

"Afterburners including methods of making and operating" was invented by Caine Finnerty (Mount Pleasant, Pa.) and Paul DeWald (Scottdale, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings provide designs and materials of construction for afterburners as well as methods of making the afterburners. More specifically, the afterburners of the present teachings can include a compressible, resilient refractory material such that thermal expansion of other adjacent components, for example, a fuel cell stack of a fuel cell unit, can be accommodated by th...