US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on June 24 for "Apparatus and method for controlling regeneration of fuel cell vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,725, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for controlling regeneration of fuel cell vehicle" was invented by Seong Cheol Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Joo Yeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a regenerative braking control apparatus includes a fuel cell stack configured to provide energy to a driving motor of the vehicle, a cathode oxygen depletion (COD) heater configured to remove gas remaining in the fuel cell stack, a high voltage battery configured to supply power to the driving motor or to be...