US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on April 15 for "Fuel cell bipolar plate flow field having hybrid interwoven channel pattern" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,404, issued on April 15, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Fuel cell bipolar plate flow field having hybrid interwoven channel pattern" was invented by Ercan M. Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yuqing Zhou (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Danny J. Lohan (Northville, Mich.), Feng Zhou (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Tomoki Tambo (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Hiroshi Ukegawa (South Lyon, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar plate for a fuel cell, a fuel cell, and a method of designing a bipolar plate for a fuel cell having a hybrid flow field structure that includes a plurality of parallel feed flow channels...