US Patent Issued to CATALER on Aug. 4 for "Catalyst for fuel cells and method for producing same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,596, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CATALER Corp. (Kakegawa, Japan).

"Catalyst for fuel cells and method for producing same" was invented by Kosuke Miyazaki (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst for fuel cells that contains a carbon powder carrier and catalyst particles carried on the carbon powder carrier, the catalyst particles being Pt alloy particles, the catalyst for fuel cells having 0.65 mmol/g or more of hydrophilic groups, and a Pt elution amount when 0.5 g of the catalyst for fuel cells is immersed in 30 ml of a 0.5 mol/L aqueous sulfuric acid solution and retained for 100 hours at room temperature un...