US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, CATALER on March 24 for "Catalyst for fuel cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,796, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and CATALER Corp. (Kakegawa, Japan).

"Catalyst for fuel cell" was invented by Ryo Shimizu (Susono, Japan), Akihiro Hori (Fukuroi, Japan), Mikihiro Kataoka (Fukuroi, Japan), Kenji Yamamoto (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Michihisa Umezawa (Fukuroi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst for a fuel cell includes a carbon support including a micropore, and a metal supported on the carbon support. The metal is at least one of platinum and a platinum alloy, a specific surface area of the carbon support is 250 m2/g-carbon or more and 338 m2/g-carbon or less, and ...