US Patent Issued to CORNING on March 4 for "Electrical heaters for exhaust aftertreatment systems and assemblies" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,339, issued on March 4, was assigned to CORNING Inc. (Corning, N.Y.).

"Electrical heaters for exhaust aftertreatment systems and assemblies" was invented by Thomas Adam Collins (Bradford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical heater assembly and an exhaust treatment assembly. The electrical heater assembly includes a heater body including an array of intersecting walls that form a plurality of channels extending in an axial direction. The intersecting walls and channels together define a honeycomb pattern of cells. A plurality of slots extend from an outer periphery of the heater body and terminate within the heater body....