US Patent Issued to N.E. CHEMCAT on July 29 for "Electrode catalyst, composition for forming gas diffusion electrode, gas diffusion electrode, membrane electrode assembly, and fuel cell stack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,700, issued on July 29, was assigned to N.E. CHEMCAT Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrode catalyst, composition for forming gas diffusion electrode, gas diffusion electrode, membrane electrode assembly, and fuel cell stack" was invented by Yoshiyuki Wada (Tokyo), Tomoteru Mizusaki (Tokyo), Kiyotaka Nagamori (Tokyo), Satoshi Aoki (Tokyo), Hiroki Shiina (Tokyo) and Yasuhiro Seki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an electrode catalyst which has excellent catalytic activity, and which can contribute to reducing the cost of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC). According to the present invention, an electrode cat...