US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on March 18 for "Dual battery fuel cell system" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,037, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Dual battery fuel cell system" was invented by Takehito Yokoo (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Wen Li (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-battery fuel cell system is provided, including two supplemental batteries, each battery supporting/supplementing operation of a fuel cell stack in the system. Driving conditions associated with a fuel cell vehicle can be obtained. Based on the driving conditions, power sources of the fuel cell vehicle to provide power to fuel cell vehicle system can be determined, the pow...