ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,878, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CATALER Corp. (Kakegawa, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing exhaust gas purification catalyst device" was invented by Hiroki Okada (Kakegawa, Japan), Koji Oga (Kakegawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Mizoguchi (Kakegawa, Japan), Hitomi Suzuki (Kakegawa, Japan) and Yuji Kawarasaki (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an exhaust gas purification catalyst device includes: (A) placing a catalyst coating layer-forming coating liquid on the upper end surface of a honeycomb substrate having a plurality of cell flow paths partitioned by cell walls in a coating liquid placing sta...