ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,231, issued on March 24, was assigned to Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Silver nanoclusters doped with rhodium hydride, manufacturing method thereof, and electrochemical catalyst for hydrogen gas generation" was invented by Dongil Lee (Goyang-si, South Korea), Hanseok Yi (Seoul, South Korea) and Sang Myeong Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to silver nanoclusters doped with rhodium hydride, a method of producing the same, and an electrochemical catalyst for hydrogen gas generation. The silver nanoclusters doped with rhodium hydride...