ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,756, issued on March 18, was assigned to KEMIJSKI INSTITUT (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

"Method for preparation of a supported noble metal-metal alloy composite, and the obtained supported noble metal-metal alloy composite" was invented by Matija Gatalo (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Nejc Hodnik (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Marjan Bele (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Miran Gaberscek (DomZale, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a double passivation galvanic displacement (GD) synthesis method for production of high performance, supported noble metal-M alloy composite material, where M is an electrochemically less noble metal...