ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,591, issued on March 3, was assigned to CARL FREUDENBERG KG (Weinheim, Germany).

"Gas diffusion layer for fuel cells, having improved bending properties" was invented by Achim Bock (Weinheim, Germany), Kristof Klein (Weinheim, Germany), Christoph Rakousky (Ober-Ramstadt, Germany) and Hannes Barsch (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas diffusion layer for a fuel cell, including a flat electrically conductive material and/or a sintered product of the flat electrically conductive material. The flat electrically conductive material includes at least one fiber material selected from the group consisting of carbon fiber...