ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,243, issued on July 1, was assigned to Brooke Erin DeSantis (Montreal).

"Control device for mounting on electrically heated articles of apparel" was invented by Alain Desmeules (Montreal) and Julie Kassabian (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated control device for mounting in electrically heated articles of apparel for controlling power to heating wires secured in the articles of apparel. The control device has a finger-operable switch integrated with electronic circuits mounted on a pcb board. The electronic circuits have a communication circuit to interface with a user person to provide message information to the us...