ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,502, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Adsorbent, its preparation and use" was invented by Jin Shang (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Zeyu Tao (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adsorbent for passive NOx adsorption includes a small pore zeolite having an eight-ring framework structure and a non-noble metal ion doped in the framework structure. An exhaustion system comprising the adsorbent and a method for preparing the adsorbent are also addressed."

The patent was filed on Dec. 11, 2023, under Application No. 18/534,934.

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