US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for fabricating membrane electrode assemblies with standalone membranes using vacuum plates" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,624, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for fabricating membrane electrode assemblies with standalone membranes using vacuum plates" was invented by Ruichun Jiang (Troy, Mich.), Michael Sweet (Macomb, Mich.), Kathryn L. Stevick (Howell, Mich.), Burl B. Keel (Waterford, Mich.) and Jackie Mara (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems for manufacturing membrane electrode assemblies for fuel cells, control logic for operating such systems, methods for making such MEAs, and fuel cell systems employing such MEAs. A method of manufacturing a m...