US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on Feb. 17 for "Metal-foam body and method for the production thereof and the use thereof as a catalyst" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,871, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Metal-foam body and method for the production thereof and the use thereof as a catalyst" was invented by Rene Poss (Karlsruhe, Germany), Monika Berweiler (Maintal, Germany) and Meike Roos (Budingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a metal-foam body, comprising the steps of (a) providing a metal-foam body A, which consists of nickel, cobalt, copper, or alloys or combinations thereof, (b) applying an aluminum-containing material MP to metal-foam body A so as to obtain metal-foam body AX, (c) thermally...