US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on March 4 for "Method of producing platinum alloy catalyst using formation of carbon protective layer" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,020, issued on March 4, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of producing platinum alloy catalyst using formation of carbon protective layer" was invented by Hyun Ju Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dong Yoon Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is, inter alia, a method of producing a platinum alloy catalyst using a carbon protective layer. The method includes depositing a transition metal precursor on a Pt/C catalyst including a platinum component and a carbon carrier, placing carbon at the bottom of a reactor separately from the transition ...