US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Sept. 16 for "Deposition of bimetallic alloy coating on stainless-steel bipolar plates" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,034, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Deposition of bimetallic alloy coating on stainless-steel bipolar plates" was invented by Muhammad Ali Ehsan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), A. Madhan Kumar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Rami K. Suleiman (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of depositing a bimetallic alloy coating onto a bare stainless-steel bipolar plate includes preheating the bare stainless-steel bipolar plate to a temperature ranging from 450deg C. to 500deg C. Further, the method includes depositing copper (Cu) and nickel (Ni) onto ...