ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,891, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Protected components in electrochemical devices" was invented by Soo Kim (Cambridge, Mass.), Patrick Fayek (Leonberg, Germany) and Charles Tuffile (Swansea, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component of an electrochemical device includes a substrate made of stainless steel, where the substrate is further characterized by a microstructure containing an intermetallic compound. A component of an electrochemical device includes a substrate having at least one surface, where the substrate is made of stainless steel. The component further includes at lea...