ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,816, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HYDROGENICS Corp. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Assessing health of a fuel stack using fuel cell voltage diagnostics" was invented by Richard J. Ancimer (Toronto), Paolo Forte (Maple, Canada), Justin Roberto Rizzi (Oshawa, Canada), Prabhsimran Malhi (Brampton, Canada), Sumit Tripathi (Columbus, Ind.), Eero Teene (Hamilton, Canada) and Ashok Kumar (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for assessing the health of a fuel cell stack including collecting fuel cell stack operating data by a controller including stack voltage data and ...