ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,933, issued on May 12, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Bipolar plate for an electrochemical cell, method for manufacturing said bipolar plate, arrangement of electrochemical cells, and method for operating said arrangement of electrochemical cells" was invented by Christian Diessner (Muehlacker-Muehlhausen, Germany), Harald Schmeisser (Stuttgart, Germany), Jochen Wessner (Esslingen, Germany), Stefan Schoenbauer (Ditzingen, Germany) and Ulrich Berner (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a bipolar plate (7) for an electrochemical cell (1), said bipolar plate comprising at l...