ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,916, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION GYEONGSANG NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Jinju-si, South Korea).

"Fuel cell with polymer electrolyte membrane" was invented by Pil Won Heo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jong Myung Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sung Chul Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Ki Hyun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Byeong Seon Kim (Jinju-si, South Korea), Han Sol Ko (Changwon-si, South Korea), Mi Jeong Kim (Gimhae-si, South Korea), Yu Gyeong Jeong (Changwon-si, South Korea) and Sean Soo Hwang (Gimhae-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U....