US Patent Issued to REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBH on March 31 for "Laser-surface-treated separator plate, method for producing same, and methods for characterizing same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,396, issued on March 31, was assigned to REINZ-DICHTUNGS-GMBH (Neu-Ulm, Germany).

"Laser-surface-treated separator plate, method for producing same, and methods for characterizing same" was invented by Edda Gallmeier (Neu-Ulm, Germany), Bernd Gaugler (Ulm, Germany), Sebastian Scheeler (Stuttgart, Germany), Stephan Wenzel (Pfaffenhofen, Germany) and Lisa Jerg (Neu-Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal separator plate for an electrochemical system, having at least a first laser-surface-treated region with a first passivation layer and a second region with a native or reconstructed passivation layer, wherein, as a result ...