ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,602, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Inc. (Fairview, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring a fuel cell" was invented by Joost Hoogduin (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Neha Roy (Arnhem, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device tracks a plurality of related metrics, each related metric configured to monitor the same characteristic of a fuel cell system based on different types of data. The related metrics may include a first metric derived from direct measurements of the characteristics and a second metric. The second metric may be inferred from indirect measurements of the charact...