US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on July 8 for "Electrochemical oxygen reduction catalyst" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,087, issued on July 8, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Electrochemical oxygen reduction catalyst" was invented by Masafumi Asahi (Ikeda, Japan) and Shin-Ichi Yamazaki (Ikeda, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electrochemical oxygen reduction catalyst comprising platinum-containing nanoparticles and at least one member selected from the group consisting of a specific polymer containing a melamine compound as a monomer and a specific melamine compound, the electrochemical oxygen reduction catalyst having not only high oxygen reduction activity (low overvoltage)...