US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on July 1 for "Device and method for exhaust gas post treatment and use thereof" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,191, issued on July 1, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Device and method for exhaust gas post treatment and use thereof" was invented by Robert Szolak (Freiburg, Germany), Alexander Susdorf (Freiburg, Germany) and Florian Rummele (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for exhaust gas post treatment is provided, comprising the following steps: a) providing a nitrogen oxide-containing raw exhaust gas, b) introducing the nitrogen oxide-containing raw exhaust gas into a catalytic evaporator (1), c) introducing a fuel into the catalytic evaporator (1), wher...