ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,845, issued on April 8, was assigned to IHI HAUZER TECHNO COATING B.V. (Venlo, Netherlands).

"Method of coating one or more metal components of a fuel cell stack, component of a fuel cell stack and apparatus for coating one or more components of a fuel cell stack" was invented by Ruud Jacobs (Venlo, Netherlands), Kenji Fuchigami (Dusseldorf, Germany), Roel Bosch (Geldrop, Netherlands), Dave Doerwald (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Philipp Immich (Issum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of coating one or more metal components of a fuel cell stack, such as a bipolar plate, an electrode, gaske...