US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Jan. 13 for "Metal foam gas diffusion layers and polymer-electrolyte-membrane fuel cells with metal foam gas diffusion layers" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,617, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Metal foam gas diffusion layers and polymer-electrolyte-membrane fuel cells with metal foam gas diffusion layers" was invented by Gaohua Zhu (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Liang Wang (Saline, Mich.), Yuqing Zhou (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Debasish Banerjee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hongfei Jia (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hiroyuki Kawai (Numazu, Japan) and Masaki Ando (Gotemba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar plate-gas diffusion layer (GDL) assembly for a poly...