ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,411, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kyungpook National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (Daegu, South Korea).

"Carbon-supported and surface-engineered platinum nanocube catalyst, method for preparing the same, and ammonia decomposition device including the same" was invented by Sang Il Choi (Daegu, South Korea), Young Min Hong (Daegu, South Korea) and Hye Jin Lee (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a carbon-supported and surface-engineered platinum nanocube catalyst having excellent ammonia oxidation activity, a method for preparing the same, and an ammonia decomp...