ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,550, issued on May 13, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Chemical and electrochemical cell electronics protection system" was invented by Daniil A. Kitchaev (Brookline, Mass.), Mordechai Kornbluth (Brighton, Mass.), Karim Gadelrab (Boston), Jonathan Mailoa (Cambridge, Mass.) and Charles Tuffile (Swansea, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical cell active hydrogen capture and release system including a first zone having a target predetermined concentration of hydrogen c1 and housing: an electrical component, an adsorbing electrode including a hydrogen adsorbing material, a counter electrode sepa...