ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,837, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Electrochemical cell catalyst state of health monitoring device" was invented by Daniil A Kitchaev (Brookline, Mass.), Mordechai Kornbluth (Brighton, Mass.), Lei Cheng (San Jose, Calif.), Kuppan Saravanan (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Braaten (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nathan Craig (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Charles Tuffile (Swansea, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical cell catalyst state of health monitoring device. The device includes a first magnetic device adjacent a first side of a first catalyst material associated with a first electrod...