ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,132, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Lightweight fuel cell stack end plate" was invented by Phalgun Madhusudan (Fort Worth, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of constructing a fuel cell system includes providing an open cell structure to form a first end plate, filling at least part of the open cell structure with a stiffening material, disposing a fuel cell stack between the first end plate and a second end plate, and compressing the fuel cell stack by moving the first end plate toward the second end plate. A fuel cell system includes a first end plate comprising an open cel...