US Patent Issued to ELECTRIC HYDROGEN on March 25 for "Geometric shapes for reduced manifold pressure drop" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,342, issued on March 25, was assigned to ELECTRIC HYDROGEN Co. (Devens, Mass.).

"Geometric shapes for reduced manifold pressure drop" was invented by Elif Karatay (Mountain View, Calif.), Jeffrey Dean Glandt (Vancouver, Canada), Alex Panchula (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Curt C. Ebner (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The following disclosure relates to junctions for combining a flow at an outlet manifold. More specifically, the following disclosure relates to junctions configured to reduce outlet manifold pressure enabling the use of smaller outlet manifolds for electrochemical cells and cell stacks."

The patent w...