US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 24 for "Method for producing a catalyst material for an electrode of an electrochemical cell" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,795, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for producing a catalyst material for an electrode of an electrochemical cell" was invented by Alin Orfanidi (Munich), Sebastian Ott (Constance, Germany) and Peter Strasser (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a catalyst material for an electrode of an electrochemical cell includes doping a carbon material with nitrogen atoms, where the doping includes: bringing a carbon material into contact with urea at a temperature in a temperature range from 750deg C. to 850deg C.; bringing an oxidized carbon material into contact wit...