US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 8 for "Method of accelerating activation of fuel cell" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,801, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of accelerating activation of fuel cell" was invented by Jun Yeol Paek (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of accelerating activation of a fuel cell, which may reduce an activation time of a fuel cell stack and the amount of hydrogen used. The method includes performing a process of alternately repeating allowance and interruption of supply of air to a fuel cell stack, simultaneously with a current application process of applying a high-current load equal to or greater tha...