US Patent Issued to Pacific Industrial Development on Feb. 18 for "Nanocrystal-sized cerium-zirconium-aluminum oxide material and method of making the same" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,428, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Pacific Industrial Development Corp. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Nanocrystal-sized cerium-zirconium-aluminum oxide material and method of making the same" was invented by Anatoly Bortun (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Jin Cho (Utsunomiya, Japan), Yunkui Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), David Shepard (Canton, Mich.) and Mila Bortun (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanocrystal-sized cerium-zirconium-aluminum mixed oxide material includes at least 20% by mass zirconium oxide; between 5% to 55% by mass cerium oxide; between 5% to 60% by mass aluminum oxide; and a total of 25% or less by mass of at least one o...