US Patent Issued to Battelle Energy Alliance on July 15 for "Metal-coated articles comprising a transition metal region and a platinum-group metal region and related methods" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,333, issued on July 15, was assigned to Battelle Energy Alliance LLC (Idaho Falls, Idaho).

"Metal-coated articles comprising a transition metal region and a platinum-group metal region and related methods" was invented by Prabhat K. Tripathy (Idaho Falls, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal-coated article that comprises a substrate, a transition metal region adjacent to the substrate, and a platinum-group metal region adjacent to the transition metal region. The transition metal region comprises a transition metal carbide layer adjacent to the substrate. The platinum-group metal region comprises a transition metal/platinum-g...