ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,186, issued on May 12, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Propane gas removal material" was invented by Mordechai Kornbluth (Brighton, Mass.), Soo Kim (Fremont, Calif.), Thomas Weil (Simmozheim, Germany), Sebastian Martens (Boeblingen, Germany), Fabian Schmid (Stuttgart, Germany) and Charles Tuffile (Swansea, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propane gas-utilizing system includes a housing having propane gas and a propane leakage prevention material having a catalyst, scavenger, and/or oxidizer of the propane gas arranged in the housing and including at least one of (a) an oxide material having at least one ...