US Patent Issued to UMICORE on Sept. 9 for "Exhaust gas purification system for purifying exhaust gases of gasoline engines" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,741, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UMICORE AG & Co. KG (Hanau-Wolfgang, Germany).

"Exhaust gas purification system for purifying exhaust gases of gasoline engines" was invented by Jan Schoenhaber (Darmstadt, Germany), Joerg-Michael Richter (Frankfurt, Germany), Carolin Braun (Langen, Germany) and Tim Palm (Ronneburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to the purification of exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine operated predominantly with a stoichiometric fuel mixture. The exhaust gas system has in particular 4 purification functions in a particular order. A three-way catalyst (TWC1) near ...