US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Nov. 3 for "Fuel cell thermal management system and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,119, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fuel cell thermal management system and method of controlling the same" was invented by Oh Tak Kwon (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment fuel cell thermal management system may include a radiator for performing heat exchange of a coolant discharged from a fuel cell stack, a coolant supply pump for supplying the coolant to the fuel cell stack, a cathode oxygen depletion (COD) heater for increasing a temperature of the coolant supplied from the coolant supply pump, a heater core disposed down...