US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Dec. 16 for "System for discharging residual water in fuel cell stack and method of controlling discharge of residual water" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,255, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System for discharging residual water in fuel cell stack and method of controlling discharge of residual water" was invented by Seon Hak Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Young Hoon Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Da Kyung Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling a discharge of residual water remaining in a fuel cell stack after an operation of a fuel cell is ended is provided. The method includes determining whether a preset temperature condition is satisfied, d...