ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,458, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SCHUNK KOHLENSTOFFTECHNIK GMBH (Heuchelheim, Germany).
"Multi-stage pressing process for producing a molded part such as a bipolar plate from a highly filled thermosetting material" was invented by Gunter Rinn (Lahnau, Germany), Hauke Voormann (Linden, Germany), Soren Baumann (GieBen, Germany) and Mesut Altuntas (Frankfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing a molded part from a highly filled thermosetting starting material including: introducing the starting material into a prepressing tool; producing a preform from the starting material, the starting material bei...