US Patent Issued to CUMMINS, HYDROGENICS on Oct. 7 for "Electrode pressure balance for a nitrogen blanketing process" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,170, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CUMMINS INC. (Columbus, Ind.) and HYDROGENICS Corp. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Electrode pressure balance for a nitrogen blanketing process" was invented by Salvatore Ranieri (Etobicoke, Canada), Eero Teene (Hamilton, Canada), Paolo Forte (Maple, Canada), Justin Rizzi (Oshawa, Canada), Prabhsimran Malhi (Brampton, Canada), Richard Ancimer (Toronto), Sumit Tripathi (Columbus, Ind.) and Sonia Sorbera (Woodbridge, Canada).

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