US Patent Issued to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts on Dec. 30 for "Catalyst composition comprising magnetic material adapted for inductive heating" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,578, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.).

"Catalyst composition comprising magnetic material adapted for inductive heating" was invented by Xiaofan Yang (Westfield, N.J.) and Matthew Tyler Caudle (Hamilton Township, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a catalyst composition, including a mixture of catalytically active particles and a magnetic material, such as superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles, capable of inductive heating in response to an applied alternating electromagnetic field. The catalytically active particles will typically include a base metal,...