ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,943, issued on May 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fuel cell system" was invented by Tomoyuki Inoue (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a humidifier provided on an oxygen-containing gas supply flow path to humidify an oxygen-containing gas flowing through the oxygen-containing gas supply flow path, a discharge path stop valve provided on an oxygen-containing gas discharge flow path and configured to be opened during power generation by the fuel cell stack, and a pressure regulator provided downstream of the discharge path stop valve to regulate pressure so tha...