ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,163, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CELLCENTRIC GMBH & Co. KG (Kirchheim Unter Teck, Germany).
"Method for bonding components of a fuel cell" was invented by Michael Medina (Kirchheim/Teck-Nabern, Germany), Michael Szperkowicz (Kirchheim/Teck-Nabern, Germany), Thomas Maassen (Kirchheim/Teck-Nabern, Germany) and Cole Patterson (Kirchheim/Teck-Nabern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is related to a method for bonding components of a PEM fuel cell with a frame and/or amongst one another, wherefore an adhesive curable by electromagnetic radiation in the range of visible light or UV is applied to the frame and/or th...