ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,337, issued on April 21, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell system" was invented by Koichi Kato (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "If a difference between pressure values detected by a plurality of pressure detectors is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, a anode pressure in the fuel gas supply pipe is estimated based on a supply situation of the fuel gas supplied from a pressure regulator and a consumption situation of the fuel gas in a fuel cell stack, and it is determined that a pressure detector detecting a pressure value closer to an estimated pressure value is a normal pressure detect...