US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 30 for "High entropy rare earth oxides for emissions control" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,477, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"High entropy rare earth oxides for emissions control" was invented by Andrew Getsoian (Canton, Mich.) and Jason Wu (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an emissions aftertreatment device. In one example, the emissions aftertreatment device may include a catalyst and a high entropy oxygen storage material formed of at least five metal oxides in equal molar proportions. The at least five metal oxides includes one or more rare earth metals as well as other metals with similar chemical properties as...