US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 14 for "System and method for detecting a fuel tank valve state in a fuel cell electric vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,307, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for detecting a fuel tank valve state in a fuel cell electric vehicle" was invented by Ross Dykstra Pursifull (Dearborn, Mich.) and Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) includes a controller that is configured to control a fuel delivery system to release fuel via an injector with a selected fuel tank valve among a plurality of fuel tank valves controlled to be in an open state and with the other fuel tank valves controlled to be in a...