ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,666, issued on June 9, was assigned to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.).

"Process for preparing zeolite material having an AFX framework structure and zeolite material as prepared" was invented by Ming Ming Wei (Shanghai), Shi Lihua (Dalian, China), Vivek Vattipalli (Iselin, N.J.), Li Menglu (Dalian, China), Liu Haitao (Dalian, China) and Li Jin (Dalian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a process for preparing a zeolite material having an AFX framework structure including X2O3 and YO2 via interzeolite conversion, the process including (1) providing a mixture including a first zeolite material ...