US Patent Issued to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts on June 16 for "Performance enhancement of a platinum-containing catalyst via exhaust gas hydrogen enrichment" (American, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,160, issued on June 16, was assigned to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.).

"Performance enhancement of a platinum-containing catalyst via exhaust gas hydrogen enrichment" was invented by Shiang Sung (Iselin, N.J.), Chunxin Ji (Iselin, N.J.) and Pavel Ruvinskiy (Novosibirsk, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a platinum-containing three-way conversion (TWC) catalyst, and a system for treating an exhaust gas stream from a gasoline engine using the TWC catalyst. The system is configured to introduce controlled quantities of hydrogen gas into the exhaust gas stream upstream of the platinum-cont...