US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Feb. 3 for "System and method for a fuel cell subgasket active area edge with through-plane photon conduction" (Michigan, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,296, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for a fuel cell subgasket active area edge with through-plane photon conduction" was invented by Ruichun Jiang (Troy, Mich.), Wenbin Gu (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Matthew J. Beutel (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a fuel-cell subgasket active area edge with through-plane proton conduction is provided. The system includes a fuel-cell membrane-subgasket assembly. The assembly includes an active area including a proton exchange membrane and a first portion of a transitional proton-conductive material attac...