ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,429, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Forschung e. V. (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany).

"Electrically conductive nanofibers for polymer membrane-based electrolysis" was invented by Friedemann Hegge (Freiburg, Germany), Matthias Breitwieser (Freiburg, Germany), Florian Lombeck (Freiburg, Germany) and Severin Vierrath (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention preferably relates to an electrolytic cell for generating hydrogen and oxygen with a layer system comprising at least one pair of catalytically active layers between which a polymer membrane is arranged, wherein the...