ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,096, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Fuel cell system and control method for fuel cell system" was invented by Takeaki Obata (Kanagawa, Japan), Hayato Chikugo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuhide Shimada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell including a cell stack configured to have a reforming catalyst for generating hydrogen from hydrocarbon, a first flow path configured to supply a fuel containing hydrocarbon to the cell stack, and a second flow path configured to supply an oxidant gas to the cell stack such that the oxidant gas flows opposi...