ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,166, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Fuel reforming apparatus for higher efficiency reforming" was invented by Dong Seok Ko (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel reforming apparatus includes a pre-reformer that converts a fuel gas to methane by bringing the fuel gas into a reaction with water, a reformer that generates a mixture gas including hydrogen by bringing the fuel gas pre-reformed by the pre-reformer into a reaction with the water, a reformer burner that supplies heat to the reformer, and an exhaust gas supply line that ca...