ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,054, issued on July 15, was assigned to KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method for coating metal, metal member comprising coating layer formed thereby and fuel cell separator" was invented by Hyun Gil Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yang Il Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Jun Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung Hwan Park (Daegu, South Korea), Jong Dae Hong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Il Hyun Kim (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method for coating metal, a metal member comprising the coating layer formed thereby, and a fuel cell separator. A method for coating metal acco...