US Patent Issued to Plug Power on Dec. 30 for "Method and system for electrochemically compressing gaseous hydrogen" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,542, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Plug Power Inc. (Slingerlands, N.Y.).

"Method and system for electrochemically compressing gaseous hydrogen" was invented by Monjid Hamdan (Worcester, Mass.), Cortney Mittelsteadt (Wayland, Mass.), Matthew Weaver (Cambridge, Mass.) and Robert Stone (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for electrochemically compressing hydrogen. In one embodiment, the system includes a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) that includes a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM), an anode, and a cathode. First and second gas diffusion media are positioned adjacent the cathode and anode, respect...