ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,532, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC (Iselin, N.J.).

"Layered tri-metallic catalytic article and method of manufacturing the catalytic article" was invented by Aleksei Vjunov (Iselin, N.J.), Michel Deeba (East Brunswick, N.J.), Xiaolai Zheng (Iselin, N.J.) and Patrick L. Burk (Freehold, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a tri-metallic layered catalytic article comprising a first layer comprising palladium supported on at least one of an oxygen storage component, and an alumina component; a second layer comprising platinum and rhodium, each supported on at least...