US Patent Issued to CORNING on March 25 for "Reinforced exhaust treatment article, exhaust line, and methods" (New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,539, issued on March 25, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Reinforced exhaust treatment article, exhaust line, and methods" was invented by Douglas Munroe Beall (Painted Post, N.Y.), Vishwanath Ganpat Deshmane (King of Prussia, Pa.), Sam George (Naperville, Ill.), Achim Karl-Erich Heibel (Corning, N.Y.) and Sandeep Viswanathan (Corning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust treatment apparatus for treating exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust line housing from an upstream location to a downstream location in a downstream direction, the exhaust treatment apparatus comprising a ceramic filter body having a hone...