ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,290, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle system to utilize surplus power" was invented by Kenta Suzuki (Tokyo), Kenichi Shimizu (Tokyo), Satoshi Oshima (Tokyo) and Yuki Fukunishi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system including a fuel cell, a power storage device storing a first power generated by the fuel cell and a second power regenerated by an electric motor, a first auxiliary machine and a second auxiliary machine driven by using at least one of the first power, the second power and a third power stored in the power storage device, and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is ...