US Patent Issued to NGK INSULATORS on Aug. 19 for "Porous composite and method of producing porous composite" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,793, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Porous composite and method of producing porous composite" was invented by Masashi Kuboyama (Yoro, Japan), Kenichi Hidaka (Nagoya, Japan), Takuya Nakashima (Nagoya, Japan) and Yunie Izumi (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A porous composite includes a porous base material, and a porous collection layer provided on a collection surface of the base material (e.g., on inner surfaces of first cells). The collection layer contains catalyst particles of rare-earth oxide or transition-metal oxide situated in pores of the collection surface of the base...