US Patent Issued to HYDROGENICS on Feb. 10 for "Raised feed channels to maintain planar bipolar plate alignment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,784, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HYDROGENICS Corp. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Raised feed channels to maintain planar bipolar plate alignment" was invented by Salvatore Ranieri (Etobicoke, Canada), Nathaniel Ian Joos (Toronto), Rainey Yu Wang (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Thomas Anthony Link (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell assembly includes a first bipolar plate, a second bipolar plate, and a diffusion-electrode assembly. A first top surface of the first plate includes a first seal protruding upwardly and a first raised feed channel adjacent the first seal and protruding upwardly. A second bottom surfac...