ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,268, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell power-supply management device and fuel cell power-supply management method" was invented by Tatsuya Minagawa (Tokyo), Naoki Yamano (Wako, Japan), Akihisa Sato (Tokyo) and Ayato Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell power-supply management device and a fuel cell power-supply management method enabling efficient recovery and utilization of boil-off gas. The fuel cell power-supply management device includes: a boil-off gas accumulation amount recognition unit that recognizes an accumulation amount of the boil-off gas in a boil-off gas accum...