US Patent Issued to Plug Power on Aug. 5 for "Sputtering-based catalyst deposition on particles for membrane electrode assembly (MEA) catalyst layer" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,683, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Plug Power Inc. (Latham, N.Y.).

"Sputtering-based catalyst deposition on particles for membrane electrode assembly (MEA) catalyst layer" was invented by Qingying Jia (Latham, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catalyst sputtering-based methods of facilitating forming a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) catalyst layer are provided. The methods include forming a catalyst ink, including obtaining a powder including a plurality of support particles, and depositing, via sputtering, a catalyst onto the plurality of support particles to form a supported catalyst for the catalyst ink. Further, the metho...