ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,445, issued on May 20, was assigned to Johnson Matthey Hydrogen Technologies Ltd. (London).

"Methods of preparing catalyst materials" was invented by Arman Bonakdarpour (Vancouver, Canada), Lius Daniel (Vancouver, Canada), Baizeng Fang (Vancouver, Canada), Jonathan Sharman (Reading, Great Britain) and David Wilkinson (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of preparing catalyst materials are provided. The catalyst material comprise electrocatalyst particles, a support material, and graphitic carbon nitride. The methods comprise applying graphitic carbon nitride to a catalyst material precursor."

The patent was file...