ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,863, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Purem GmbH (Neunkirchen, Germany).

"Control flap assembly for a gas flow in a fuel cell system" was invented by Markus Lory (Stuttgart, Germany), Matthias Grun (Altbach, Germany), Andreas Wacker (Plochingen, Germany), Jochen Hammer (Stuttgart, Germany), Markus Birgler (Wernau, Germany) and Annika Zeumer (Wernau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control flap assembly for a gas flow in a fuel cell system, in particular in a vehicle, includes a control flap housing providing a gas flow channel, and a control flap with a disk-like control flap body which can be adjusted in the control flap ...