US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on Sept. 23 for "Method of designing fluid flow field structure for fuel cell bipolar plate" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,483, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Method of designing fluid flow field structure for fuel cell bipolar plate" was invented by Danny J. Lohan (Northville, Mich.), Yuqing Zhou (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ercan M. Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Feng Zhou (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Hiroshi Ukegawa (South Lyon, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more methods of designing an FC bipolar plate that enhance the operational performance of FC. A first image analysis is conducted of image data of a fluid flow field structure having one or more dehomogenized microstructur...