US Patent Issued to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts on March 25 for "Multifunctional catalyst for hydrocarbon oxidation and selective catalytic reduction of NOx" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,573, issued on March 25, was assigned to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.).

"Multifunctional catalyst for hydrocarbon oxidation and selective catalytic reduction of NOx" was invented by Kevin Beard (Iselin, N.J.), Joseph A. Patchett (Iselin, N.J.), Edgar Viktor Huennekes (Hannover, Germany), Jan Martin Becker (Hannover, Germany) and John K. Hochmuth (Raritan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a catalyst for the oxidation of hydrocarbon and the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides, the catalyst comprising a substrate comprising an inlet end, an outlet end, a substrate ax...