US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 14 for "Fuel cell power management system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,214, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Fuel cell power management system" was invented by Jared M. Farnsworth (San Francisco), Andrew G. Sata (Irvine, Calif.) and Daniel C. Folick (Los Alamitos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a fuel cell power management system including: a fuel cell; a battery; a charge sensor operatively coupled to the battery; a speedometer; and a processor that includes a memory. The processor is configured to calculate a mapping of desired fuel cell power output as a ...