ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,798, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to HERAEUS PRECIOUS METALS GMBH & Co. KG (Hanau, Germany) and HERAEUS PRECIOUS METAL TECHNOLOGY (CHINA) Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).

"Precious metal catalyst briquettes, process for the manufacture and for the inceneration thereof" was invented by Bin Zhang (Jiangsu, China), Zhengquan Hu (Shanghai), Cunfei Fan (Sichuan, China), Wengang Li (Jiangsu, China), Gangfeng Liu (Shanghai), Christian Mock (Hanau, Germany) and Bernhard Bauer-Siebenlist (Aschaffenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the incineration of precious metal catalyst briquettes, wherein the precious metal catalyst...