US Patent Issued to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on Nov. 11 for "System and method for controlling fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle with sensor fault tolerance" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,389, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for controlling fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle with sensor fault tolerance" was invented by Muhammad Maaruf (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Sami Elferik (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle (FCHEV) with sensor fault tolerance includes receiving current measurements of a fuel cell, a battery, an ultracapacitor, and a voltage measurement of a DC-bus from sensors; detecting and estimating a sensor fault in at least one of the curren...