ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,040, issued on July 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and THE INDUSTRY & ACADEMIC COOPERATION IN CHUNGNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (IAC) (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Manufacturing method of a catalyst for a fuel cell" was invented by Seongmin Yuk (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kookil Han (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Woo Yeong Noh (Seoul, South Korea), Namgee Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Jiho Min (Daejeon, South Korea), Yunjin Kim (Sejong-si, South Korea) and Keonwoo Ko (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method of a catalyst may modify a carbon layer struc...