ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,629, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell system and valve control method for fuel cell system" was invented by Kazuhide Inoue (Wako, Japan), Kazusa Koga (Wako, Japan) and Takuto Nakagawa (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit of a fuel cell system estimates an amount of nitrogen in an anode flow field, performs a first comparison by comparing the estimated amount of nitrogen with a first threshold amount, performs a second comparison by comparing a target power generation amount as a target amount of power generation by a fuel cell stack with a second threshold amount in a c...