ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,273, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SINOTECH Co. Ltd. (Chengdu, China).

"Ozone purification catalyst and preparation method and application thereof" was invented by Yun Wang (Chengdu, China), Qizhang Chen (Chengdu, China), Yun Li (Chengdu, China), Zhimin Liu (Chengdu, China), Haidi Xu (Chengdu, China), Jianli Wang (Chengdu, China) and Yaoqiang Chen (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ozone purification catalyst, and a preparation method therefor and an application thereof are provided. The catalyst coating uses macroporous, high specific surface and CeO2 and/or La2O3 modified Al2O3 as the carrier material, and Mn ...