US Patent Issued to KOLON INDUSTRIES, KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on March 4 for "Fuel cell catalyst, manufacturing method therefor, and membrane-electrode assembly including same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,021, issued on March 4, was assigned to KOLON INDUSTRIES INC. (Seoul, South Korea) and KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Fuel cell catalyst, manufacturing method therefor, and membrane-electrode assembly including same" was invented by Jun Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Nak-Won Kong (Seoul, South Korea), Kah-Young Song (Seoul, South Korea), Hee-Tak Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Dong Wook Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a fuel cell catalyst of which only a portion, which has relatively low catalytic activity and in which the greatest amount of platinum ...