ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,325, issued on April 21, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Transfer sheet, transfer method and method for manufacturing membrane electrode assembly" was invented by Katsuhiko Oshikawa (Tokyo) and Shogo Takamuku (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve peelability of a base sheet regardless of a type of the base sheet.A transfer sheet (50A, 50B) in which a transfer layer (52) is laminated on a base sheet (51) includes a plurality of gas occlusion bodies (60) in a surface of or inside the transfer layer (52). The gas occlusion bodies (60) store gas therein and release the stored gas when energy is applie...