US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on May 27 for "Shock-force mitigation systems and methods for electrochemical fuel cell stacks" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,977, issued on May 27, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Shock-force mitigation systems and methods for electrochemical fuel cell stacks" was invented by Yeh-Hung Lai (Oakland, Mich.), Jeffrey A. Rock (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Balasubramanian Lakshmanan (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are shock-force mitigation systems for fuel cell stacks, methods for making/using such systems, and electric-drive vehicles equipped with such systems. A fuel cell system includes multiple electrochemical fuel cells that are stacked face-to-face along a stack axis to define a fuel cell st...