US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Nov. 4 for "Proton conductor, electrolyte membrane, membrane electrode assembly, electrochemical cell and fuel cell stack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,230, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Proton conductor, electrolyte membrane, membrane electrode assembly, electrochemical cell and fuel cell stack" was invented by Kosuke Nunoo (Osaka, Japan), Yuichi Mikami (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroshi Asano (Osaka, Japan), Tomohiro Kuroha (Osaka, Japan) and Yuji Okuyama (Miyazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proton conductor of the present disclosure includes a compound represented by the chemical formula BaZr(1-x-y)YbxScyO3-Delta. The chemical formula satisfies 0greater thanxgreater than0.5, 0 greater thanygreater than0.5, ...