US Patent Issued to AUDI on July 8 for "Fuel recirculation in a fuel cell device having a plurality of fuel cell stacks" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,119, issued on July 8, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Fuel recirculation in a fuel cell device having a plurality of fuel cell stacks" was invented by Markus Ruf (Waldstetten, Germany) and Hannah Staub (Karlsdorf-Neuthard, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell device with a fuel tank which has a fuel supply line which is branched into fuel portion supply lines, having a plurality of fuel cell stacks which stacks each have, on the anode inlet side, a fuel connection which is respectively fluidically connected to one of the fuel portion supply lines. Exclusively one of the fuel cell stacks is connected on t...