US Patent Issued to University of Delaware on June 17 for "Electrochemical devices and fuel cell systems" (Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,611, issued on June 17, was assigned to University of Delaware (Newark, Del.).

"Electrochemical devices and fuel cell systems" was invented by Yushan Yan (Newark, Del.) and Brian Setzler (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrochemical devices including electrochemical pumps (ECPs) and fuel cell systems comprising a fuel cell and an ECP are disclosed. In particular, this electrochemical device can be an ECP that comprises an anode, a cathode and an anion exchange polymer separating the anode from the cathode. The ECP can be coupled to a hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cell (HEMFC) that is disclosed herein as a fuel cell ...