US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 23 for "Thermal management system for a fuel cell electric vehicle and a method for controlling same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,643, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (QRSeoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Thermal management system for a fuel cell electric vehicle and a method for controlling same" was invented by Seok Hyeon Park (Hampyeong-eup, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal management control apparatus includes: a stack cooling line configured to cool a fuel cell stack of the fuel cell electric vehicle; a battery cooling line configured to cool a battery of the fuel cell electric vehicle; a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between a stack coolant of the stack cooling line and a ba...