US Patent Issued to BASF MOBILE EMISSIONS CATALYSTS on Sept. 16 for "Performance enhancement of a catalyst via exhaust gas hydrogen enrichment" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,254, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BASF MOBILE EMISSIONS CATALYSTS LLC (Iselin, N.J.).

"Performance enhancement of a catalyst via exhaust gas hydrogen enrichment" was invented by Shiang Sung (New York), Chunxin Ji (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Pavel Ruvinskiy (Novosibirsk, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a system for treating an exhaust gas stream from a gasoline engine. The system is configured to introduce controlled quantities of hydrogen gas into the exhaust gas stream upstream of a catalyst article during a cold-start period. Further provided are related methods of treating such exhaust streams. S...