ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,510, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Flower-like ferrocerium composite material supported with platinum and its preparation method and application in low-temperature thermocatalytic treatment of toluene" was invented by Jianmei Lu (Suzhou, China) and Dongyun Chen (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a platinum-loaded flower-like iron-cerium composite material includes: subjecting an iron salt solvent to thermal reaction and then calcining to obtain a flower-like porous iron oxide; in the presence of a chelating agent, reacting the flower-like iron oxide with a ...