ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,565, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Vehicle control apparatus for controlling fuel cell system and control method thereof" was invented by Jung Tak Kang (Incheon, South Korea) and Yong Doo Son (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle control apparatus identifies a fuel cell module in which an error occurs among fuel cell modules included in the fuel cell system and an error type, stops the fuel cell module in which the error occurs, except for a case where the same error consecutively occurs in the same fuel cell module among the...