US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 12 for "Methods to improve the durability of metal-supported solid oxide electrochemical devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,151, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods to improve the durability of metal-supported solid oxide electrochemical devices" was invented by Michael Tucker (Piedmont, Calif.), Emir Dogdibegovic (Oakland, Calif.) and Ruofan Wang (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to metal-supported solid oxide electrochemical devices. In one aspect, a stainless steel support of a device is oxidized. A coating is deposited on an oxygen-electrode side of the stainless steel support of the device. The coating...