ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,100, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and CATALER Corp. (Kakegawa, Japan).

"Catalyst for fuel cell" was invented by Kumiko Nomura (Okazaki, Japan), Rui Imoto (Fujisawa, Japan), Hidetoshi Okada (Kani-gun, Japan), Naoki Hasegawa (Nagakute, Japan), Tomohiro Takeshita (Nagakute, Japan), Kazuhisa Yano (Nagakute, Japan), Kenji Yamamoto (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yuko Matsumura (Iwata, Japan) and Yuuki Kasama (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiment is a catalyst for a fuel cell including: a catalyst metal; and a carrier that supports the catalyst metal, in which an outer surface...