US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Sept. 30 for "Fuel cell device" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,520, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fuel cell device" was invented by Woo Young Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment fuel cell device includes a fuel cell, a power controller configured to convert a magnitude of a stack voltage output from the fuel cell and to output the stack voltage having the converted magnitude to a load, and a junction box including a bypass diode that includes an anode coupled to the stack voltage and to a voltage input terminal of the power controller and a cathode coupled to a voltage output t...