ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,533, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and CATALER Corp. (Kakegawa, Japan).

"Exhaust gas purification device and method for manufacturing exhaust gas purification device" was invented by Takahiro Nishio (Miyoshi, Japan), Shogo Shirakawa (Toyota, Japan), Hiroki Shirakawa (Toyota, Japan), Nobuyuki Takagi (Toyota, Japan), Tomomasa Aikawa (Fukuroi, Japan), Hiroki Nihashi (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Takahiro Noguchi (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The exhaust gas purification device includes: a substrate including an upstream and a downstream ends; a first catalyst layer extending across ...