ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,215, issued on April 7, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Methods of making honeycomb bodies having inorganic filtration deposits" was invented by Pei Cong (Shanghai), Cai Liu (Suzhou, China) and Huiqing Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for applying a surface treatment to a plugged honeycomb body comprising porous wall includes: atomizing particles of an inorganic material into liquid-particulate-binder-adhesion promoter droplets comprised of an aqueous vehicle, an alkali-free binder and an adhesion promoter, and the particles, evaporating substantially all of the aqueous vehicle from the droplets to f...