US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on March 31 for "Catalytic converter for a motor vehicle, as well as a motor vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,554, issued on March 31, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Catalytic converter for a motor vehicle, as well as a motor vehicle" was invented by Stefan Weiss (Holzgerlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalytic converter includes a housing and a catalyst carrier disposed in a receiving chamber of the housing. The housing has an inlet opening and at least two outlet openings. The inlet opening is formed in an inlet wall which completely seals the receiving chamber, except for the inlet opening, in a direction running parallel to a main direction of flow and pointing away from the at least two ...