ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,494, issued on May 20, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"System and method for fuel cell diagnosis" was invented by Jae Ho Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dae Jong Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Chang Hwa Hyun (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for diagnosing a fuel cell includes one or more fuel cell modules each including a fuel cell stack to output power through a first converter and a battery connected to the fuel cell stack through a second converter; and a controller configured to determine whether diagnosis of the fuel cell stack i...