US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on May 6 for "Systems and methods for powering down a generator including a fuel cell" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,125, issued on May 6, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for powering down a generator including a fuel cell" was invented by Daniel Charles Folick (Long Beach, Calif.), Matthew K. McClory (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Dakota Kelley (Garland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to safely ceasing fuel cell (FC) operation and idling components of a generator. In one embodiment, a method includes ceasing power generation by reducing fuel to an FC within a generator while maintaining energy to sensitiv...