US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Aug. 25 for "Carbon-based catalytic devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,136, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Carbon-based catalytic devices" was invented by Paul Jakob Dauenhauer (Minneapolis), Carl Daniel Frisbie (Minneapolis), Tzia Ming Onn (Minneapolis), Sallye Rose Gathmann (Minneapolis) and Yuxin Wang (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are carbon-based catalytic devices, methods of catalyzing one or more chemical reactions, and methods of fabricating the catalytic devices. Catalytic devices may include a catalyst material, an electrically conductive carbon material in contact with the catalyst material, an electrically condu...