ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,611, issued on May 5, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Fuel cell unit" was invented by Yoshihiro Shinozaki (Toyota, Japan), Masayuki Ito (Sunto-gun, Japan), Keita Kinoshita (Susono, Japan), Hirofumi Kanazawa (Toyota, Japan) and Yugo Ichida (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel cell unit includes: a fuel cell module; and a power converter. The fuel cell module includes a first fuel cell module including a first fuel cell stack that is a stack of first single cells, and a second fuel cell module including a second fuel cell stack that is a stack of second single cells. The power converter includes a firs...