ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,887, issued on June 10, was assigned to Versa Power Systems Ltd. (Danbury, Conn.).
"Compact high temperature electrochemical cell stack architecture" was invented by Casy Cloudless Brown (Calgary, Canada), Khun Bong Luc (Calgary, Canada) and Cameron James Rankin (Calgary, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base plate assembly for an electrochemical cell stack includes a bottom end plate defining a fuel inlet port, a fuel outlet port, and an oxidant port. The base plate assembly further includes a high strength sealing plate including openings that align with the fuel inlet port, the fuel outlet port, and the oxidant port, and a ...