ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,903, issued on June 10, was assigned to KYOTO UNIVERSITY (Kyoto, Japan).

"Alloy nanoparticle, aggregate of alloy nanoparticles, catalyst, and method for producing alloy nanoparticles" was invented by Hiroshi Kitagawa (Kyoto, Japan), Kohei Kusada (Kyoto, Japan) and Dongshuang Wu (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel alloy nanoparticle which the alloy nanoparticle contains five or more types of elements, in the case where the alloy nanoparticle is directly supported on a carbon material carrier, the carbon material carrier excludes graphene or carbon fibers; an aggregate of alloy nanoparticles; a catalyst; a production m...