ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,304, issued on April 14, was assigned to SUBARA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell and mobile unit" was invented by Takumi Nunokawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell includes metallic separators and has an anode-gas channel, a cathode-gas channel, and a coolant channel. The metallic separators include a flat separator and a channel-equipped separator. A peripheral edge of a manifold of the channel-equipped separator whose first surface has a channel serving as the coolant channel is provided with a step. The step surrounds the peripheral edge of the manifold to increase a height of a gas inlet disposed at a second surface of ...