US Patent Issued to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts on April 29 for "Coordinated emission control system including diesel oxidation catalyst and low temperature NO x adsorber" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,745, issued on April 29, was assigned to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.).

"Coordinated emission control system including diesel oxidation catalyst and low temperature NO x adsorber" was invented by Jeffrey B. Hoke (New Brunswick, N.J.), Gerd Grubert (Hannover, Germany) and Alfred Punke (Schwuelper-Walle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to an emission treatment system for oxidation of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide and for NOx abatement in an exhaust stream of a lean burn engine, the emission treatment system including a low-temperature NOx adsorber (LT-NA) that includes a ...