US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus for controlling fuel cell and method of operating same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,252, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for controlling fuel cell and method of operating same" was invented by Wook Hyun Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling a fuel cell includes the fuel cell, a battery, and a control device electrically connected to the fuel cell and the battery, wherein the control device may identify a residual current capacity (SOC) of the battery, and suspend power generation off of the fuel cell based on whether a vehicle is driven when the SOC is identified to be in an over...