US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on June 2 for "Electrochemical hydrogen pump" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,191, issued on June 2, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrochemical hydrogen pump" was invented by Kunihiro Ukai (Nara, Japan), Tsuneyuki Ejima (Osaka, Japan) and Norihiko Kawabata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrochemical hydrogen pump includes at least one hydrogen pump unit including an electrolyte membrane, an anode, a cathode, an anode separator, and a cathode separator; an anode end plate disposed on the anode separator positioned in a first end in a stacking direction; a cathode end plate disposed on the cathode separator positioned in a second end in...