US Patent Issued to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University, INSTITUTE FOR BASIC SCIENCE on Feb. 24 for "Water splitting catalyst" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,849, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea) and INSTITUTE FOR BASIC SCIENCE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Water splitting catalyst" was invented by Hyoyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinsun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ashwani Kumar (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a water splitting catalyst including a porous carbon layer, a bimetallic metal alloy core dispersed on the porous carbon layer, and a single-atom precious metal dispersed on the bimetallic metal alloy core, in which oxygen is adsorbed on the su...