ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,520, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Eberspacher catem GmbH & Co. KG (Herxheim, Germany).
"PTC heating assembly" was invented by Patrick Kachelhoffer (Seebach, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PTC heating assembly has a plurality of PTC elements and electric strip conductors between which the PTC elements are provided and which are electrically conductively connected to the PTC elements The PTC heating assembly also includes a frame which forms at least one receptacle for the PTC elements and which is provided between the strip conductors. For adjusting the heating power of the PTC heating assembly, at least two strip condu...