US Patent Issued to Washington University on Oct. 6 for "Reactant-transport engineering for high-power direct liquid-fuel/oxidant fuel cells" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,987, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Reactant-transport engineering for high-power direct liquid-fuel/oxidant fuel cells" was invented by Shrihari Sankarasubramanian (St. Louis), Zhongyang Wang (St. Louis) and Vijay K. Ramani (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are flow field plates comprising a flow field pattern and fuel cells comprising the flow field plates comprising a flow field pattern. The flow field plates and fuel cells are applicable to fuel cells and stacks over a range of sizes and fuel/oxidant combinations as long as the fuel and oxidant are incompressible liqu...