US Patent Issued to PLUG POWER on July 1 for "Proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer membrane electrode assembly" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,942, issued on July 1, was assigned to PLUG POWER INC. (Slingerlands, N.Y.).

"Proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer membrane electrode assembly" was invented by Fan Yang (Latham, N.Y.), Chao Lei (Latham, N.Y.), Arthur Griffith (Latham, N.Y.), Robert Stone (Latham, N.Y.) and Cortney Mittelsteadt (Latham, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exchange membrane includes, for example, a first layer membrane having a first thickness, a second layer membrane having a thickness less than the first thickness, and the second layer membrane containing a catalyst, a catalyst content in the second layer membrane being greater than a cataly...