ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,370, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Humidifier for fuel cell" was invented by Ju Yong Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Won Sub Han (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun Yoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A humidifier for a fuel cell includes: a housing; a first space provided in the housing; a moist air supply port connected to the housing so as to communicate with the first space and configured to supply moist air discharged from a fuel cell stack; a humidification unit provided in the first space; a second space disposed separately from t...