US Patent Issued to CATALER, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 8 for "Exhaust gas purification catalyst apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,327, issued on April 8, was assigned to CATALER Corp. (Kakegawa, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Exhaust gas purification catalyst apparatus" was invented by Kana Iwata (Kakegawa, Japan), Minoru Itou (Kakegawa, Japan), Takeru Yoshida (Toyota, Japan), Masaru Kakinohana (Toyota, Japan), Hiromasa Suzuki (Toyota, Japan) and Atsushi Tanaka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust gas purification catalyst apparatus has a honeycomb base material and a catalyst noble metal supported by the honeycomb base material, wherein: the honeycomb base material contains ceria-zirconia composite oxide particles as one o...