ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,807, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrode catalyst, electrode catalyst layer using electrode catalyst, membrane-electrode assembly, and electrochemical device" was invented by Nobuhiro Miyata (Osaka, Japan) and Haruhiko Shintani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode catalyst according to the present disclosure includes a mesoporous material and catalyst metal particles which are supported in at least an inner portion of the mesoporous material and which contain platinum and a metal different from platinum. The mesoporous material has meso...