US Patent Issued to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts on Aug. 11 for "Three-way conversion catalyst composition comprising platinum-rhodium bimetallic components" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,968, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.).

"Three-way conversion catalyst composition comprising platinum-rhodium bimetallic components" was invented by Yuejin Li (Iselin, N.J.), Andreas Sundermann (Heidelberg, Germany), Xiaolai Zheng (Iselin, N.J.), Yipeng Sun (Iselin, N.J.), Karifala Dumbuya (Hannover, Germany) and Pascaline Tran (Iselin, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a catalyst composition comprising a) platinum; b) rhodium; and c) a ceria-alumina composite, a zirconia composite or a mixture thereof, wherein platinum is supported on the ceria-alu...