ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,808, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Bipolar plate for fuel cells, fuel cell stack having such bipolar plates, and vehicle having such a fuel cell stack" was invented by Adel Jilani (Burnaby, Canada), Sanjiv Kumar (Burnaby, Canada), Radu P. Bradean (Burnaby, Canada) and Sebastian Voigt (Heilbronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bipolar plate for a fuel cell, is provided having an anode plate with an anode side and a coolant side, wherein there is formed on the anode side a first structuring in order to form an anode flow field, and a cathode plate with a cathode side and a coolant side, wh...