US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on June 9 for "Method for determining aging of a fuel cell system" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,759, issued on June 9, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for determining aging of a fuel cell system" was invented by Fredrik Blomgren (Hisings Karra, Sweden), Johan Lindberg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Staffan Luong (Molndahl, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining aging of a fuel cell system for a vehicle, comprising identifying a future interval in terms of time or distance during which the fuel cell system is expected to operate at stationary operating conditions, obtaining measurement values pertaining to at least one fuel cell parameter indicative of degradation of the fuel cell...