ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,164, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fuel cell system" was invented by Heejoong Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyoungsuk Woo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell system includes: a stack generating electric power using reformed gas; a fuel processing device supplying reformed gas; a first gas passage connecting the stack and the fuel processing device, and carrying the reformed gas; a second gas passage connecting the stack and the fuel processing device and carrying an anode off gas (AOG) discharged from the stack; a buffer tank storing the AOG; a first buffer tank...