ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,410, issued on April 15, was assigned to PLUG POWER INC. (Slingerlands, N.Y.).

"Integrated circuit for diagnostics" was invented by Jon Owejan (Latham, N.Y.), Edward Snyder (Latham, N.Y.) and Glenn White (Latham, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell system includes a membrane electrode assembly, a first plate separator and a second plate separator on opposite sides of the membrane electrode assembly. The first plate separator and the second plate separator have exterior ends laterally spaced from the membrane electrode assembly. A first gas diffusion layer is located between the first plate separator and the membrane electr...