US Patent Issued to KYOTO UNIVERSITY on Feb. 18 for "Alloy of at least three metal elements, aggregate of alloy nanoparticles, and catalyst" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,821, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to KYOTO UNIVERSITY (Kyoto, Japan).

"Alloy of at least three metal elements, aggregate of alloy nanoparticles, and catalyst" was invented by Hiroshi Kitagawa (Kyoto, Japan), Kohei Kusada (Kyoto, Japan), Syo Matsumura (Fukuoka, Japan), Tomokazu Yamamoto (Fukuoka, Japan) and Xuan Quy Tran (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alloy composed of three or more types of elements, wherein all the standard deviation of distribution in the alloy of each element constituting the alloy are 15 atomic % or less provides a novel alloy composed of three or more types of elements and having a high sol...