US Patent Issued to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts on March 18 for "Catalytic article and methods of manufacturing and using the same" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,015, issued on March 18, was assigned to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.).

"Catalytic article and methods of manufacturing and using the same" was invented by Aleksei Vjunov (Iselin, N.J.), Michel Deeba (East Brunswick, N.J.), Xiaolai Zheng (Iselin, N.J.) and Tian Luo (Iselin, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a catalytic article comprising a) a first layer comprising a nickel component and a copper component supported on a ceria component, wherein the amount of the nickel component is 0.1 to 30 wt. %, calculated as nickel oxide, based on the total weight of the first layer, and whe...