US Patent Issued to HYDROGENICS on March 11 for "Additive application of microporous layer onto gas diffusion layer" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,721, issued on March 11, was assigned to HYDROGENICS Corp. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Additive application of microporous layer onto gas diffusion layer" was invented by Ellsworth William Bell (Etobioke, Canada), Udit N. Shrivastava (East York, Canada) and Arvind V. Harinath (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell including a catalyst layer configured to generate liquid water in response to a reactant being in contact therewith. The fuel cell includes a microporous layer having a first region with a first pore size and a second region disposed adjacent to the first region having a second pore size. The first pore s...