US Patent Issued to Cataler, National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System on Jan. 20 for "Catalyst material" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,074, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cataler Corp. (Kakegawa, Japan) and National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System (Nagoya, Japan).

"Catalyst material" was invented by Naoto Fujita (Kakegawa, Japan), Mai Huong Tran (Kakegawa, Japan), Keiichi Narita (Kakegawa, Japan), Norihiko Aono (Kakegawa, Japan) and Atsushi Satsuma (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an exhaust gas purification catalyst having an excellent purification performance for purifying chemically stable methane. A catalyst material 30 includes a carrier 32 formed of alumina and a catalys...