ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,270, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and Yonsei University, University-Industry Foundation (UIF) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for designing ternary catalyst using machine learning" was invented by Seunghyo Noh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hoje Chun (Seoul, South Korea) and Byungchan Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a ternary catalyst for an oxygen reduction reaction. The method may include constructing a database including catalytic activity of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) of PtFeCu nanoparticles usi...