US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Dec. 30 for "Fuel cell operating system and method of controlling operation of fuel cell" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,491, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fuel cell operating system and method of controlling operation of fuel cell" was invented by Ik Jae Son (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yei Sik Jeon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell operating system including an air compressor disposed on an air supply line and configured to compress an oxidation gas to be supplied to a fuel cell stack and supply the compressed air to a fuel cell inlet side, an air discharge line configured to discharge the oxidation gas from the fuel cell stack, a bypass l...