US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on April 7 for "Fuel cell vehicle, method of controlling startup thereof, and recording medium storing program to execute the method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,618, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fuel cell vehicle, method of controlling startup thereof, and recording medium storing program to execute the method" was invented by Yoon Tae Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sae Kwon Chang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Woo Young Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell vehicle of the disclosure includes a cell stack, a boost converter receiving a first target voltage from the cell stack, a supercapacitor, an initial charging converter receiving a second target voltage from the cell stac...