ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,226, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Fuel cell cooling" was invented by Torsten Brandt (Forchheim, Germany), Michael Braunecker (Nuremberg, Germany), Frank Barnreuther (Neustadt Aisch, Germany) and Arno Mattejat (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar plate for an electrochemical cell, includes a flow space arranged between a first and a second plate element and has a flow inlet and a flow outlet for a coolant flowing through the flow space. Each plate element has a contact plane for contacting the other plate element and, between the flow inlet and the flow outlet, ...