ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,394, issued on March 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and CATALER Corp. (Kakegawa, Japan).
"Oxygen storage/release material and method for producing the same" was invented by Eriko Yoshimoto (Toyota, Japan), Nobuyuki Takagi (Toyota, Japan), Takuya Okuda (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yuhei Udagawa (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takahiro Harada (Fujieda, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an oxygen storage/release material that has achieved both the improved oxygen storage/release capacity at low temperature and heat tolerance, which comprises a ceria-zirconia-based composite oxide, wherein the c...