ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,396, issued on March 4, was assigned to Purem GmbH (Neunkirchen, Germany).

"Exhaust-gas treatment arrangement" was invented by Silas Brauning (Denkendorf, Germany), Wolfgang Datz (Tuebingen, Germany), Markus Henzler (Grafenberg, Germany), Oleksandr Velyaev (Stuttgart, Germany), Tobias Wolf (Koengen, Germany) and Arthur Wieland (Baltmannsweiler, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exhaust-gas treatment arrangement for an exhaust-gas system of a combustion engine has a first exhaust-gas treatment unit and, downstream thereof, an exhaust-gas treatment assembly. The treatment unit and the treatment assembly are arranged axially one...