ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,327, issued on July 7, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating a fuel cell system, and control device" was invented by Timo Bosch (Renningen, Germany) and Tobias Falkenau (Esslingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for operating a fuel cell system, wherein hydrogen from a tank and recirculated hydrogen are fed as anode gas to at least one fuel cell via an anode circuit (1), and water (6) contained in the anode gas is separated by means of a water separator (2) integrated into the anode circuit (1), is collected in a container (3), and is removed from the sy...