ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,546, issued on June 3, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Zinc chromium vanadate spinel oxide (ZCVO) nanostructure-based electrocatalyst for energy generation and storage" was invented by Emre Cevik (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Fatimah Alahmari (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ayhan Bozkurt (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode including a substrate, zinc (Zn) doped CrV spinel oxide (ZCVO) nanoparticles, a conductive carbon compound, and a binding compound. A mixture of the ZCVO nanoparticles, the conductive carbon compound, and the binding compound at least partially coats...