ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,492, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Integrated cooling control valve" was invented by Hun Woo Park (Namyangju-si, South Korea), Jin Hun Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hyun Ju Ji (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment integrated cooling control valve applied to a fuel cell thermal management system (TMS) includes a ball valve having at least three layers, wherein the ball valve includes a valve housing including a first port fluidly connected to a fuel cell stack, a second port coupled to a cathode oxygen depletion (COD) heater, ...