US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 4 for "Fuel cell stack diagnostics using crowdsourcing for connected fuel cell vehicle" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,601, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Fuel cell stack diagnostics using crowdsourcing for connected fuel cell vehicle" was invented by Ming Cheng (Northville, Mich.), Rajit Johri (San Francisco), William F. Sanderson Jr. (Commerce Township, Mich.), Matthew Riley (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Hao Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Alhadi Albousefi (Dearborn, Mich.) and Zeng Qiu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a fuel cell stack arranged to generate power for propulsion, an auxiliary fuel cell stack component, and a processor. The processor, responsive to a crowdsourced av...