US Patent Issued to CORNING on Jan. 13 for "Cement plug composition for application to a ceramic honeycomb body and method of forming plugged ceramic honeycomb body with the same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,697, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Cement plug composition for application to a ceramic honeycomb body and method of forming plugged ceramic honeycomb body with the same" was invented by Weimin Hou (Shanghai), Yang Li (Shanghai), Jianguo Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Qing Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cement composition for plugging a honeycomb body, a plugged honeycomb body, and methods of plugging a honeycomb body are provided. The cement composition includes a source of inorganic particles, an inorganic binder, an organic binder, and a crosslinking agent that is capable of reactin...