ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,326, issued on April 21, was assigned to Greenerity GmbH (Alzenau, Germany) and Technische Universitat Munchen (Munich).

"Oxygen evolution catalyst, production and use of same, membrane electrode arrangement and fuel cell or electrolytic cell" was invented by Mohammad Fathi Tovini (Munich), Hany Elsayed (Neufahrn, Germany), Ana Marija Damjanovic (Munich), Hubert Gasteiger (Munich), Jozsef Speder (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Alessandro Ghielmi (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Jens-Peter Suchsland (Alzenau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oxygen evolution reaction catalyst includes iridium oxide that exhibits a weight loss ...