US Patent Issued to Airbus Operations on Aug. 5 for "Bipolar plate for a fuel cell for generation of electrical power" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,234, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).

"Bipolar plate for a fuel cell for generation of electrical power" was invented by Matthias Hegenbart (Hamburg, Germany) and Peter Linde (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar plate for a fuel cell for generation of electrical power has a bipolar plate body having a first surface. The bipolar plate body has at least one gas flow channel on the first surface, the gas flow channel defining a first gas flow channel side wall and an opposite second gas flow channel side wall, and the gas flow channel running in a first direction to expose...