US Patent Issued to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on July 21 for "Battery cell" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,043, issued on July 21, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Battery cell" was invented by Chien-Ming Lai (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Sung-Chun Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chiu-Ping Huang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Li-Duan Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery cell including a membrane electrode assembly, a cathode bipolar plate and an anode bipolar plate. The anode bipolar plate includes a metal layer and a thermally conductive layer. The metal layer is stacked on a side of the membrane electrode assembly that is located farthest away from the cathode bipolar plate...