US Patent Issued to NIMBUS POWER SYSTEMS on Feb. 17 for "Four-fluid bipolar plate for fuel cell" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,804, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NIMBUS POWER SYSTEMS INC. (Groton, Conn.).

"Four-fluid bipolar plate for fuel cell" was invented by Matthew P. Wilson (Groton, Conn.), Michael E. Gorman (Wellesley, Mass.) and Samuel J. Angles (Groton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A four-fluid bipolar plate for a fuel cell includes a nonporous sub-plate and a porous sub-plate. The nonporous sub-plate includes a water management side, an opposing reactant side, and an internal coolant passage therebetween. The water management side includes a recessed region over an area approximately equal to the active area, and the porous sub-plate is...