US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Sept. 1 for "Device and method for cleaning a fluid for the operation of a fuel cell" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,812, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device and method for cleaning a fluid for the operation of a fuel cell" was invented by Andreas Ringk (Bamberg, Germany) and Anton Ringel (Bamberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a filter unit (100, 301) for filtering a fluid (105) for the operation of a fuel cell. The filter unit (100, 301) comprises at least one filter element (101) filled with a filter material (103) comprising cyclodextrin. The presented invention also relates to a fuel cell system, to the use of cyclodextrin to filter a fluid for the operati...