ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,966, issued on May 26, was assigned to Johnson Matthey PLC (London).

"Coated filters" was invented by Kaneshalingam Arulraj (Royston, Great Britain), Thomas Hotchkiss (Royston, Great Britain), David Marvell (Royston, Great Britain) and Stuart Reid (Royston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a powder coated article for filtering particulate matter from exhaust gases. The powder coated article comprises a coated monolith article, and a powder coating on the coated monolith article. The coated monolith article is a monolith article coated with an on-wall washcoat, and the powder coating compri...