ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,513, issued on Sept. 15.

"Gauzes having a tertiary structure for the catalytic conversion of fluids" was invented by Jens Kopatsch (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Three-dimensionally knitted noble metal gauzes, or sections of such gauzes, for carrying out catalytic reactions of fluids are knitted in two or multiple layers and the meshes of the individual layers are connected to one another in one form by a pile thread or multiple pile threads, so that the noble metal gauze has a tertiary structure."

The patent was filed on July 30, 2021, under Application No. 18/018,939.

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