ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,862, issued on April 29, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Fuel cell-battery system and control method thereof" was invented by Woo Jung Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a fuel cell-battery system that includes a battery module configured to cool a battery using coolant, a fuel cell module configured to heat hydrogen and to supply the heated hydrogen to a fuel cell configured to produce electric power using the hydrogen, and a heat exchange module through which the coolant and the hydrogen exchange heat with each other. The...