ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,207, issued on March 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Distributor plate for an electrochemical cell, and electrochemical cell" was invented by Ulrich Berner (Stuttgart, Germany) and Manuel Schneiter (Boeblingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a distributor plate (7) for an electrochemical cell (1), wherein the distributor plate (7) has a structure comprising webs (12) with surfaces (13) and main channels (11) with base surfaces (33), and the surfaces (13) of the webs (12) have distributor channels (60), wherein at least one distributor channel (60) has an auxiliary channel...