ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,977, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Inc. (Fairview, Ore.).
"Modular fuel cell and H2 storage system for vehicles" was invented by Willem Jacobus Nieuwland (Helmond, Netherlands), Neha Roy (Arnhem, Netherlands), Bram Kuipers (Velp, Netherlands), Joost Hoogduin (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Narendra Gupta (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Menno de Lint (Oud Gastel, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular assembly for a fuel-cell vehicle is configured to connect to a bracket arranged along a longitudinal frame of the vehicle. The modular frame can include one or more components for powering the vehi...