ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,232, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Single cell and fuel cell stack with elastic structures for equal distribution of operating media" was invented by Oliver Keitsch (Heilbronn, Germany), Nico Riede (Stuttgart, Germany), Armin Siebel (Neckarsulm, Germany) and Sebastian Voigt (Heilbronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single cell for a fuel cell stack is provided, having a membrane electrode assembly arranged in an active region, being associated with at least one single plate, which is formed with a flow field to supply an operating medium to the active region of the membrane electrode asse...