US Patent Issued to Purem on Oct. 27 for "Valve and a fuel cell system incorporating the valve" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,499, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Purem GmbH (Neunkirchen, Germany).

"Valve and a fuel cell system incorporating the valve" was invented by Jan Hanisch (Neuhausen, Germany), Matthias Grun (Altbach, Germany), Andreas Wacker (Plochingen, Germany) and Milijenko Novosel (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve includes a discoid valve element pivotable between open and closed positions. On an outer circumferential region of the valve element, an annular valve-element sealing face is provided, and an annular valve seat surrounds a valve opening. On an inner circumferential region of the valve seat, a valve-seat sea...