ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,180, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Kencoa Aviation (Incheon, South Korea).

"Method and system for charging battery using fuel cell" was invented by Dong Han Yoon (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Hyeong Seog Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and system for charging a battery using a fuel cell. The method includes: running the fuel cell; setting a voltage input from the fuel cell as a preset first input adapting voltage (1st IAV), when the input power from the fuel cell is lower than the output power to the battery; detecting whether an output current to the battery reaches a first low d...