US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on April 29 for "Oxygen evolution reaction catalysis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,713, issued on April 29, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Oxygen evolution reaction catalysis" was invented by John M Gregoire (Sierra Madre, Calif.), Lan Zhou (Pasadena, Calif.), Santosh K. Suram (Pasadena, Calif.), Aniketa A. Shinde (Duarte, Calif.), Joel A. Haber (Pasadena, Calif.) and Dan W. Guevarra (Norwalk, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oxygen evolution reaction catalyst is a ternary metal oxide that includes Mn and is represented by MnuSbvOw in the rutile crystal phase and MxMnyOz where M is selected from the group consisting of Ca, Ni, Sr, Zn, Mg, Ni, Ba, Co and where u/(u+v) ...