ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,937, issued on May 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell power system" was invented by Kenji Taruya (Saitama, Japan), Satoru Kawase (Tokyo), Ryo Jimba (Saitama, Japan), Ryota Kitamoto (Saitama, Japan) and Yoshinaka Hirata (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell power system includes a plurality of fuel cell systems that include a fuel cell stack and a fuel tank for storing fuel gas and supplying the fuel gas to the fuel cell stack. The fuel cell power system includes an auxiliary machine that is connected to be electrically switchable to any of the plurality of fuel cell system, and consume el...