US Patent Issued to AGC on June 23 for "Electrolyte material, membrane electrode assembly and polymer electrolyte fuel cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,210, issued on June 23, was assigned to AGC INC. (Tokyo).

"Electrolyte material, membrane electrode assembly and polymer electrolyte fuel cell" was invented by Satoshi Matsushita (Tokyo), Takumi Okuyama (Tokyo) and Susumu Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an electrolyte material which can form crack-resistant catalyst layers when used in membrane electrode assemblies and enables provision of fuel cells having good power generation characteristics, a membrane electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell. The electrolyte material of the present invention is made of a polymer having ion...