ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,325, issued on April 8, was assigned to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.).

"Catalyzed particulate filter" was invented by Jun Cong Jiang (Shanghai), Yipeng Sun (Iselin, N.J.), Aleksei Vjunov (Iselin, N.J.), Pascaline Tran (Iselin, N.J.) and Attilio Siani (Hanover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a particulate filter, in particular a catalyzed particulate filter, for use in an emission treatment system of an internal combustion engine. Provided are catalyzed particulate filters, emission treatment systems with catalyzed particulate filters, methods for manufacturing catalyzed particulate fil...