ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,851, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Univerzita Karlova (Prague).
"Method of manufacturing of a membrane with surface fibre structure, membrane manufactured by this method and use of such membrane" was invented by Peter Kus (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Yurii Yakovlev (Mykolaiv, Ukraine) and Vladimir Matolin (Zdiby, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of manufacturing of a membrane with surface fiber structure, in particular for use in an electrolyzer or fuel cell, by inserting the polymer membrane into the vacuum chamber equipped with a magnetron sputtering system with a cerium oxide target in which an atmospher...