ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,495, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEAL TH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Highly active, robust and versatile multifunctional, fully non-noble metals based electro-catalyst compositions and methods of making for energy conversion and storage" was invented by Prashant N. Kumta (Pittsburgh), Prasad P. Patel (Pittsburgh), Moni K. Datta (Pittsburgh), Oleg Velikokhatnyi (Pittsburgh), Prashanth J. Hanumantha (Pittsburgh), Ramalinga Kuruba (Pittsburgh) and Shrinath Ghadge (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides noble metal-free electro-catalyst compositions for ...