US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on Feb. 4 for "Method of predicting liquid regions and vapor regions in bipolar plates of a fuel cell" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,392, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Method of predicting liquid regions and vapor regions in bipolar plates of a fuel cell" was invented by Yuqing Zhou (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ercan M. Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of designing a fuel cell includes executing one or more programs on one or more computing devices having one or more processors to predict a location of one or more liquid regions and one or more vapor regions in microchannels at an air layer of a plate of the fuel cell. Based on the prediction, fluid flow network...