ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,501, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for controlling fuel cell system" was invented by Jun Young Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seong Cheol Jeong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Dae Jong Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jae Won Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a device and a method for controlling a fuel cell system, in which during operation of the fuel cell system, the device and method determine a minimum motoring current limit value applied to a motor for driving a fuel cell vehicle by varyin...