ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,442, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Composite material for photocatalytic hydrogen production and photocatalytic hydrogen production catalyst" was invented by Zan-Xiang Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Li-Yu Ting (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ho-Hsiu Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tsan-Yao Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Fan-Gang Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite material for photocatalytic hydrogen production and a photocatalytic hydrogen production catalyst are provided. The composite material includes a plurality of inorganic semiconductor particles and a linear conjugated pol...