ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,921, issued on April 21, was assigned to GENESEE VALLEY INNOVATIONS LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Carbon supported nitrogen surface functionalized silver nanoparticles for gas diffusion electrodes" was invented by Yujie Zhu (Mississauga, Canada), Yulin Wang (Oakville, Canada), Robert Claridge (Cambridge, Canada) and Kurt I. Halfyard (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition, a gas diffusion electrode, and a method for fabricating the same is disclosed. In an example, the composition includes carbon supported nitrogen surface functionalized silver nanoparticles. The gas diffusion electrode can be fabricated with...