US Patent Issued to HYDROGENICS on Nov. 25 for "Fuel leak detection in fuel cell stack" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,840, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HYDROGENICS Corp. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Fuel leak detection in fuel cell stack" was invented by Sonia Sorbera (Woodbridge, Canada), Robert Bencak (Georgetown, Canada), Prabhsimran Malhi (Brampton, Canada) and Luke Fregonese (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for detecting a hydrogen leak in a fuel cell system including initiating a shutdown process of a fuel cell stack in the fuel cell system by a controller, measuring a volume of hydrogen in a reservoir, pulsing a volume of hydrogen into the reservoir or pulsing hydrogen directly...