US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Proton conductive material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,399, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY (Sapporo, Japan).

"Proton conductive material" was invented by Naoki Nakamura (Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Tamaki Nakano (Sapporo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a proton conductive material which has high proton conductivity even under no humidification and does not elute into water. A proton conductive material comprising a proton-source-polymer and a proton-channel-polymer, wherein at least one selected from the group consisting of the proton-source-polymer and the proton-channel-polymer i...