US Patent Issued to RIKEN, TOSOH on March 11 for "Manganese-iridium composite oxide for water splitting catalyst, manganese-iridium composite oxide electrode material, and their production methods" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,302, issued on March 11, was assigned to RIKEN (Saitama, Japan) and TOSOH Corp. (Yamaguchi, Japan).

"Manganese-iridium composite oxide for water splitting catalyst, manganese-iridium composite oxide electrode material, and their production methods" was invented by Ryuhei Nakamura (Saitama, Japan), Nadege Bonnet (Saitama, Japan), Shuang Kong (Saitama, Japan) and Kazumasa Suetsugu (Yamaguchi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a manganese-iridium composite oxide, a manganese-iridium composite oxide and a manganese-iridium composite oxide electrode material, having high catalytic activity produced at low cost, to be used a...