ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,229, issued on July 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Power net apparatus of a fuel cell and control method thereof" was invented by Yong Hwi Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Young Woo Noh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Byoung Kuk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Man Jae Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seung Hyun Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dong Hwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yun Seong Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyeon Soo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power n...