US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on March 31 for "Fuel cell vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,675, issued on March 31, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fuel cell vehicle" was invented by Woo Young Lee (Yongin, South Korea), Ju Han Kim (Yongin, South Korea), Yoon Tae Kim (Seongnam, South Korea), Sae Kwon Chang (Yongin, South Korea) and Tae Woo Ryu (Pohang, 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 including a plurality of unit cells stacked on one another, a boost converter configured to boost the output from the cell stack and to output the boosted output as main power, a supercapacitor configured to be cha...