US Patent Issued to CUMMINS on Nov. 25 for "Range estimator and life-based power demand strategy for fuel cell powertrain systems and methods" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,841, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CUMMINS INC. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Range estimator and life-based power demand strategy for fuel cell powertrain systems and methods" was invented by Prateek Vaish (West Sacramento, Calif.), Patrick Kaufman (Vacaville, Calif.), Jifei Yan (West Sacramento, Calif.), Roger William Gomes (Elk Grove, Calif.), Venkat Sri Sai Guturi (Redmond, Wash.), Yash Agarwal (San Jose, Calif.) and Vishavjit Singh (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a fuel cell includes determining a total age of the fuel cell, determining a state-of-charge of a battery, in response to the state-o...